[21] Together with 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction, it established her as a prominent figure in the humanist movement, part of a wave of "new new atheists" marked by less divisive rhetoric and a greater representation of women. 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. [15] Her third novel, The Dark Sister (1993), was something of a departure: a postmodern fictionalization of family and professional issues in the life of William James. She serves on the World Economic Forum's Council on Values. It came together. Rebecca Goldstein is composed of 6 names. Her aim had been to study Leibniz more closely, motivated by her interests in philosophy of science and philosophy of mathematics. The reviews were overwhelmingly positive and she was the subject of feature articles in, among others,The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement, The Times Higher Education Supplement, Prospect, and The Atlantic, with, once again, The Washington Post citing it as one of the best books of the year. They meet today. Aside from Barnard, Goldstein has taught in the Columbia MFA writing program and in the department of philosophy at Rutgers, has been a visiting scholar at Brandeis University, and taught for five years as a Visiting Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. Plato at the Googleplex book. Goldstein is a MacArthur Fellow, and has received the National Humanities Medal,[12] the National Jewish Book Award, and numerous other honors. Goldstein’s writings emerge as brilliant arguments for the belief that fiction in our time may be the best vehicle for involving readers in questions of morality and existence. [31], American novelist, short story writer, biographer, philosopher. In a previous life, she had a short stint as a road manager/PA for the MTV comedy troupe, T he State. I had just come through an emotional time, having not only become a mother but having also lost my father, whom I adored. As she described it. Because I didn't want to be hypocritical with our kids, I kept everything. [24] She has held visiting fellowships at the Radcliffe Institute, Brandeis University, the Santa Fe Institute, Yale University, and Dartmouth College. A MacArthur Fellowship in 1996 led to the writing of Properties of Light (2000), a ghost story about love, betrayal, and quantum physics. Her second novel, The Late-Summer Passion of a Woman of Mind (1989), was also set in academia, though with a far darker tone. 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[22] In 2011, she was named "Humanist of the Year" by the American Humanist Association, and "Freethought Heroine" by the Freedom from Religion Foundation. To her surprise, it was the rationalist Spinoza who most fascinated her, putting her bias against metaphysics to the test. She joined the agency in 2015. There are some differences that reveal rifts so deep that dialogue breaks down. In that year she also delivered the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Yale University, entitled "The Ancient Quarrel: Philosophy and Literature," which was published by University of Utah Press. Her 2005 book Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel, was featured in articles in The New Yorker and The New York Times, received numerous favorable reviews, and was named one of the best books of the year by Discover magazine, the Chicago Tribune, and the New York Sun. Bennett is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and serves on the board of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. [3] National Public Radio chose it as one of its "five favorite books of 2010",[19] and The Christian Science Monitor named it the best book of fiction of 2010.[20]. Jan. 20, 2010; ... Cass's literary agent, Sy Auerbach, called to congratulate him. Her next book, part of a series on great Jewish thinkers and themes, was Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew who Gave Us Modernity, published in May 2006; it won the 2006 Koret International Jewish Book Award in Jewish Thought. It lasted through college. What is the belief that lies most close to your core? She was born into an Orthodox Jewish family. Louise Dean [26], Goldstein's writing has also appeared in[27] chapters in a number of edited books, in journals including The Atlantic, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, The Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, Tikkun (magazine), Commentary (magazine), and in blog format in The Washington Post's "On Faith" section.[28]. 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. Rebecca Newberger Goldstein graduated from Columbia University, receiving the Montague Prize for Excellence in Philosophy and receiving her PhD in philosophy from Princeton University. Then it went away, and I was a happy little atheist. Luc de La Barre de Nanteuil. [29] They are the parents of the novelist Yael Goldstein Love and poet Danielle Blau. The meaning is only elevated and deepened. She followed it with a short-story collection, Strange Attractors (1993), which was a National Jewish Honor Book and New York Times Notable Book of the Year. The Rebecca Pratt Literary Group connects writers with marketable manuscripts to publishers who can turn it into a book. This new focus shaped the next two of her books. Dinner party hostesses used to be warned to steer the conversation away from politics and religion. Goldstein has been designated Humanist of the Year 2011 by the American Humanist Association, and Freethought Heroine 2011 by the Freedom from Religion Foundation. Read 243 reviews from the world's largest community f… Find Literary Agents. by Rebecca Goldstein " Not as profound as it aspires to be, but great fun for those who like to match wits against a tricky author practicing some masterful sleight-of-hand." Literary Agent at Janklow & Nesbit Associates. While in graduate school she was awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship and a Whiting Foundation Fellowship. In 2008, she was designated a Humanist Laureate by the International Academy of Humanism, and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Emerson College, where she gave the commencement address. Emmanuel Goldstein is a fictional character in George Orwell's 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.He is the principal enemy of the state according to the Party of the totalitarian Oceania.He is depicted as the head of a mysterious and possibly fictitious dissident organization called "The Brotherhood" and as having written the book The Theory and Practice of … ... Senior Literary Agent at Writers House. Her most recent novel is 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction (2010),[3] which explores ongoing controversies over religion and reason through the tale of a professor of psychology who has written an atheist best-seller, while his life is permeated with secular versions of religious themes such as messianism, divine genius, and the quest for immortality. Goldstein has described the book, which combines elements of memoir, biography, history, and philosophical analysis, as "the eighth book I'd published, but [the] first in which I took the long-delayed and irrevocable step of integrating my private and public selves". That was probably my last burst of religious passion. [6][7] This theory is a continuation of her idea of "the mattering map", first suggested in her novel The Mind–Body Problem. We have tutorials on wordage or word … Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (born February 23, 1950) is an American philosopher, novelist, and public intellectual. Rebecca Goldstein is currently considered a "single author." I remember leaving a class on mysticism in tears because I had forsaken God. "Now that you're famous, even I … In short, I wanted to write a philosophically motivated novel. Amb. If one or more works are by a distinct, homonymous authors, go ahead and split the author. After earning her Ph.D. in philosophy from Princeton University, where she studied with Thomas Nagel and wrote a dissertation titled "Reduction, Realism, and the Mind", she returned to Barnard as a professor of philosophy. You can examine and separate out names. In 2016, she was a visiting professor in the English department at New York University. In 2005 she was elected to The American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Join Facebook to connect with Rebecca Goldstein and others you may know. I spent 90-minutes over the phone with her Tuesday afternoon, April 11, 2006. More novels followed: The Late-Summer Passion of a Woman of Mind; The Dark Sister, which received the Whiting Writer’s Award, Mazel, which received the 1995 National Jewish Book Award and the 1995 Edward Lewis Wallant Award; and Properties of Light: A Novel of Love, Betrayal, and Quantum Physics. She holds a Ph.D. in philosophy of science from Princeton University, and is sometimes grouped with novelists such as Richard Powers and Alan Lightman, who create fiction that is knowledgeable of, and sympathetic toward, science. The Frances Goldin Literary Agency is one of New York’s premier boutique literary agencies, representing over 150 best-selling and award-winning journalists, novelists, activists, graphic artists, poets and scholars across a wide range of genres, from literary and commercial fiction to investigative journalism, memoir, biography, popular culture, progressive politics, history and … Rebecca GOLDSTEIN, PhD Student of Monash University (Australia), Melbourne | Read 21 publications | Contact Rebecca GOLDSTEIN Goldstein, born Rebecca Newberger, grew up in White Plains, New York. She was the Miller Scholar at the Santa Fe Institute in 2011,a  Franke Visiting Fellow at the Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, in 2012 and the Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College in 2013. Philosophical convictions are under-determined by both pure a priori reason and empirical evidence. Rebecca Newberger Goldstein received her doctorate in philosophy from Princeton University.Her award-winning books include the novels The Mind-Body Problem, Properties of Light, 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction and nonfiction studies of Kurt Gödel and Baruch Spinoza.Her most recent work, Plato at the Googleplex, was released from … My husband was Orthodox. 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. The results weren’t so different than (Stephen King–like) unearthing a story from underground, or (Rebecca Goldstein) viewing the whole through a telescope. This is the 1000LiteraryAgents listing for the literary agent Debra Goldstein. In addition to Barnard, Goldstein has taught at Columbia, Rutgers, and Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and since 2014, she has been[23] a visiting professor at the New College of the Humanities in London. By REBECCA NEWBERGER GOLDSTEIN. "Rebecca Newberger Goldstein’s erudition, coupled to her literary skill, makes Plato at the Googleplex inviting and readable without sacrificing complexity." She has written ten books, both fiction and non-fiction. I am an Assistant Professor of Law in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. It's in this spirit that Edge presents a brief excerpt from the first chapter, and the nonfiction appendix from 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (21,250 words). In a 2006 interview with Luke Ford, Goldstein said: I lived Orthodox for a long time. In 2006-2007 she was a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and a Guggenheim Fellow. View the profiles of people named Rebecca Goldstein on Facebook. Dual citizen of the Midwest and NYC. View Rebecca Goldstein, PhD, CMPP’S profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. REBECCA NEWBERGER GOLDSTEIN is a philosopher, a novelist, and Edge contributor. Our literary agents seek works of fiction and nonfiction to present to publisher's representatives and editors in nearly any genre. She also decided to fill in her gaps in the history of philosophy, volunteering to teach a course on the 17th century rationalists. — JB. Goldstein said she wrote the book to "insert 'real life' intimately into the intellectual struggle. Novelist Rebecca Goldstein - The Mind-Body Problem. She has written ten books, both fiction and non-fiction. Goldstein married her first husband, physicist Sheldon Goldstein, in 1969,[29] and they divorced in 1999. Rebecca Gradinger joined Fletcher & Company in 2009 after previously working as an agent at Janklow & Nesbit Associates. Here to talk books, theater, and tennis. 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction - Kindle edition by Goldstein, Rebecca. Sex and physics turn out to have a lot in common in the latest from Goldstein ( Mazel , 1995, etc. In 1996 Goldstein became a MacArthur Fellow, receiving the prize which is popularly known as the “Genius Award.” In awarding her the prize, the MacArthur Foundation described her work in thefollowing words: Rebecca Goldstein is a writer whose novels and short stories dramatize the concerns of philosophy without sacrificing the demands of imaginative storytelling. 2012 Franke Visiting Fellow, Whitney Humanities Center, 2011 Humanist of the Year awarded April 2011 by the, 2011 Freethought Heroine awarded October 2011 by the. Her latest novel, Thirty-Six Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction, was published by Pantheon Books in 2010 in the U.S. and by Atlantic Grove in the U.K. that same year. I used to wonder why, but I don’t anymore. [13], In 1983, Goldstein published her first novel, The Mind-Body Problem, a serio-comic tale of the conflict between emotion and intelligence, combined with reflections on the nature of mathematical genius, the challenges faced by intellectual women, and Jewish tradition and identity. The citation reads "for bringing philosophy into conversation with culture. They make more sense. Goldstein has written two biographical studies: Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel (2005); and Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity (2006). ‎A monthly conversation about books and ideas on NTS Radio hosted by friends Carrie Plitt, a literary agent, and Octavia Bright, a writer and academic. In the course of grieving for my father and glorying in my daughter, I found that the formal, precise questions I had been trained to analyze weren’t gripping me the way they once had. Her books tell a compelling story as they describe with wit, compassion and originality the interaction of mind and heart. Book Agent Veronica Goldstein has studied the Spanish Language and … The Mind-Body Problem was published by Random House and went on to become a critical and popular success. Rebecca Gradinger- Literary Manager Eric Lupfer- Literary Manager Lisa Grubka- Literary Manager Sarah Fuentes- Literary Manager Veronica Goldstein - Literary Manager Svetlana Katz- Chief of Staff (to Christy Fletcher) Jacob Bozeman- Literary Assistant Brenna Raffe- Foreign Rights Assistant Eve MacSweeney- Affiliate Agent While in graduate school she was awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship and a Whiting Foundation Fellowship. Betraying Spinoza combined her continuing interest in Jewish ideas, history, and identity with an increasing focus on secularism, humanism, and atheism. The book has a long non-fiction appendix (attributed to the novel's protagonist) that details 36 traditional and modern arguments for the existence of God, together with their claimed refutations. So, for example, he visits the Googleplex, the headquarters of Google, in Mountain View CA and discusses with both his media escort and a software engineer whether ethics can be crowdsourced. She was also appointed a Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the New College of the Humanities in London, U.K. in 2011, and continues to lecture there. In 2014, she published Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away, an exploration of the historical roots and contemporary relevance of philosophy. Renee Feuer is a sharp young philosophy grad-student, raised an Orthodox Jew but very much fallen away. [16] A fictional mother, daughter, and granddaughter introduced in two of the stories in that collection became the main characters of[17] Goldstein's next novel, Mazel (1995), which won the National Jewish Book Award[18] and the 1995 Edward Lewis Wallant Award. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Rebecca Sherman @RebeccAgent. Approached to contribute a book to Norton's series on great scientific discoveries, she decided to write about the Incompleteness Theorems. To me the process is still mysterious. Rebecca has 6 jobs listed on their profile. ". A list of 18,896 authors and the literary agents who represent them OR have represented them in the past.. You can also search for an agent to view a list of all the authors that agent represents. He also debates a tiger mother on how to raise a child, goes on Fox News to speak about the importance of reason, and has his brain scanned, engaging two neuroscientists on the question of whether free will and moral agency are compatible with the findings of neuroscience. I was torn like a character in a Russian novel. This agent is associated with the literary agency DeFiore and Company. I wanted to confront such questions in my writing, and I wanted to confront them in a way that would insert "real life" intimately into the intellectual struggle. Biography. Welcome! She is now a writer and editor. In her three non-fiction works, she has shown an affinity for philosophical rationalism, as well as a conviction that philosophy, like science, makes progress,[4] and that scientific progress is itself supported by philosophical arguments. She serves on the Council on Values of the World Economic Forum,[25] and on the advisory board of the Secular Coalition for America. Domenica De Rosa. [29], In 2007, she married[30] cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker. She earned a PhD in philosophy from … She specialises in non-fiction project(...) info@jerichowriters.com A list of 18,896 authors and the literary agents who represent them OR have represented them in the past.. You can also search for an agent to view a list of all the authors that agent represents. This website offers advice on presenting queries for representation or publication. The vacuum is filled by intellectual temperament,  varying from one thinker to the next, expressive of his or her entire orientation toward reality (including orientations that reject any notion of reality). Rebecca Winfield was the Rights and Contracts Director at Transworld Publishers before becoming a literary agent in 2003. [5] She has also stressed the role that secular philosophical reason has made in moral advances. Combine with… Amazon Exclusive: Rebecca Goldstein on 36 Arguments for the Existence of God. 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