Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

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in White Plains, New York, The United States

February 23, 1950

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http://www.rebeccagoldstein.com

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Literature & Fiction, Philosophy, Biographies & Memoirs

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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.

After earning her Ph.D. she returned to her alma mater, where she taught courses in philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, the rationalists, the empiricists, and the ancient Greeks. It was some time during her tenure at Barnard that, quite to her own surprise, she used a summer vacation to write her first novel, The Mind-Body...more

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Average rating: 3.61 · 2,749 ratings · 570 reviews · 13 distinct works · Similar authors

	36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction 3.53 of 5 stars 3.53 avg rating — 1,103 ratings — published 2009 — 9 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel 3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 442 ratings — published 2005 — 6 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mind-Body Problem 3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 377 ratings — published 1983 — 4 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity 3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 252 ratings — published 2006 — 5 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mazel 3.46 of 5 stars 3.46 avg rating — 151 ratings — published 1995 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Properties of Light: A Novel of Love, Betrayal, and Quantum Physics 3.33 of 5 stars 3.33 avg rating — 125 ratings — published 2000 — 5 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Strange Attractors: Stories 3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Late-Summer Passion of a Woman of Mind 3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1989 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dark Sister 3.06 of 5 stars 3.06 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works by John Brockman (Editor), Susan Blackmore, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein 3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 181 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“We each carry our own designated end within us, our very own death ripening at its own rate inside of us. There are insignificant people who are harboring unawares the grandeur of large deaths. We carry it in us like a darkening fruit. It opens and spills out. That is death.”
― Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, Properties of Light: A Novel of Love, Betrayal, and Quantum Physics

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“And if the prodigious genius of Azarya Sheiner has never found the solution, then perhaps that is proof that no solution exists, that the most gifted among us is feeble in mind against the brutality of incomprehensibility that assutalts us from all sides. And so we try, as best we cn, to do justice to the tremendousness of our improbable existence. And so we live, as best we can, for ourselves, or who will live for us? And we live, as best we can, for others, otherwise what are we?”
― Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction

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“I've got access to your mysterious body but not your mysterious soul. Souls seem to me the loneliest possibility of all.”
― Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, Properties of Light: A Novel of Love, Betrayal, and Quantum Physics

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