Rebecca Goldstein
American philosopher and novelist; The Mind-Body Problem, Plato at the Googleplex.
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- Rebecca Goldstein is an American philosopher and novelist with eleven books of fiction and nonfiction.
- Her first novel, The Mind-Body Problem (1983), introduced the idea of the "mattering map".
- She is a MacArthur Fellow (1996) and received the National Humanities Medal.
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- Born
- 23 February 1950, as Rebecca Newberger1
- Education
- Barnard College (1972); PhD in philosophy, Princeton University1
- Novels
- The Mind-Body Problem (1983); The Dark Sister (1993); Mazel (1995, National Jewish Book Award); Properties of Light (2000)1
- Nonfiction
- Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel (2005); Betraying Spinoza; Plato at the Googleplex (2014)1
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