Author. Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut.

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, a novelist and philosopher, was awarded a MacArthur “Genius” prize for her ability to “dramatize the concerns of philosophy without sacrificing the demands of imaginative storytelling.” She has taught philosophy at Barnard College, Columbia University, Rutgers University and Trinity College. She is currently an associate researcher at Harvard University. Her areas of specialty are philosophy of science, seventeenth-century rationalism, and mathematical logic. Her second career is as a novelist. Her first novel was the critically acclaimed bestseller The Mind-Body Problem. She has received numerous prizes for her five other works of fiction, including two National Jewish Book Awards for Strange Attractors and Mazel and the Whiting Writers’ Award for The Dark Sister. In addition she has published two non-fiction books. The first Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel was chosen by Discover Magazine as among the best ten science books published in 2006. Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity, was the winner of the Koret International Prize. She has been awarded two honorary doctorates, Guggenheim and Radcliffe fellowships, and is a Humanist Laureate and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her latest novel, entitled 36 Arguments for The Existence of God: A Work of Fiction, was published in January, 2010.