Rebecca Newberger Goldstein is an American philosopher, novelist, and public intellectual.
She is the author of 10 books of acclaimed fiction and non-fiction, including The Mattering Instinct: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us (2026), 36 Arguments for the Existence of God, Betraying Spinoza, and Plato at the Googleplex. She holds a PhD in philosophy of science from Princeton University and has taught at Barnard, Columbia, Harvard, Yale, NYU, and the New College of the Humanities in London.
She is a MacArthur Fellow and recipient of the 2014 National Humanities Medal presented by President Barack Obama.
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The Mattering Instinct: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us Buy the Book
Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away Buy the Book
36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction (Vintage Contemporaries) Buy the Book
Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity (Jewish Encounters Series) Buy the Book
Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel (Great Discoveries) Buy the Book
Properties of Light Buy the Book
The Mind-Body Problem (Contemporary American Fiction) Buy the Book
The Late Summer Passion of a Woman of Mind (Vintage Contemporaries) Buy the Book
The Dark Sister Buy the Book
