Rebecca goldstein biography

Curriculum Vitae

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein grew up in White Plains, New York, and graduated summa cum laude from Barnard College, receiving the Montague Prize for Excellence in Philosophy, and immediately went on to graduate work at Princeton University, receiving her Ph.D.

in philosophy. While in graduate school she was awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship and a Whiting Foundation Fellowship.

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Rebecca Goldstein is a writer whose novels and short stories dramatize the concerns of philosophy without sacrificing the demands of imaginative storytelling.

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Born February 23, , in White Plains, NY; daughter of Bezalel (a cantor) and Loretta (a homemaker) Newberger; married Sheldon Goldstein (a physicist);.

Rebecca Goldstein is a MacArthur Fellow, a professor of philosophy, and the author of five novels and a collection of short stories.

After earning her Ph.D. she returned to her alma mater, where she taught courses in philosophy of science and philosophy of mind and philosophy of mathematics. She also decided to fill in her gaps in the history of philosophy, volunteering to teach a course on the 17th century rationalists.

Her aim had been to study Leibniz more closely, motivated by her interests in philosophy of science and philosophy of mathematics. To her surprise, it was the rationalist Spinoza who most fascinated her, putting her bias against metaphysics to the test.

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