Curriculum Vitae

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

President Barack Obama awards a 2014 National Humanities Medal to novelist and philosopher Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
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Education

Ph.D., Princeton University, philosophy, 1977
      Dissertation Title: “Reduction, Realism and the Mind”
      Dissertation advisor: Thomas Nagel
B.A., Summa Cum Laude, Barnard College, Columbia University, 1972

Awards

  • National Medal of the Humanities, awarded by President Obama, 2015
  • Tanner Lectures on Human Values, Yale Univeristy, 2012
  • Freedom From Religion Foundation, Freethought Heroine, 2011
  • Humanist of the Year, American Humanist Association, 2011
  • Humanist Laureate, International Academy of Humanism, 2008- .
  • Honorary Doctorate, Emerson College, 2008. 
  • Guggenheim Fellow, 2006-2007
  • Radcliffe Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, 2006-2007
  • Koret International Book Award in Jewish Thought (“Betraying Spinoza”), 2006
  • Willard O. Eddy Lecture Award in Contemporary Philosophy, Colorado State University, 2006
  • Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2005
  • MacArthur Foundation Fellow, 1996-2001. Citation: 
  • Best Books of 2005 (“Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel”): Discover, Chicago Tribune, New York Sun
  • Bunting Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, 2001 (declined)
  • Honorary Doctorate, Spertus Institute, Chicago, Ill, 2000
  • Honors in Fiction, Massachusetts Book Awards (“Properties of Light”), 2001
  • 100 Great 20th Century Works of Fiction by Women (“The Mind-Body Problem”), Feminista: The Journal of Feminist Construction, 2000
  • Bogliasco Foundation Fellow, 1998
  • Prairie Schooner Award for Best Short Story of 1997, University of Nebraska Press
  • Edward Lewis Wallant Award for Mazel, University of Hartford, 1996
  • National Jewish Book Award for Mazel, 1995
  • National Jewish Book Honor Award for Strange Attractors, 1994
  • Whiting Foundation Writer’s Award, for The Dark Sister, 1993-94
  • American Council for Learned Societies Fellowship, 1984
  • Whiting Foundation Fellowship Award, philosophy, 1975-76
  • National Science Foundation Fellowship Award for philosophy of science, 1972-75
  • Montague Prize for excellence in philosophy, Barnard College, 1972

Employment

  • Professor of Philosophy, New College of the Humanities, London, U.K. 2012-
  • Research Associate, Harvard University, 2007-
  • New York University, Visiting Professor in Departments of Philosophy and English, 2016-18
  • Montgomery Fellow, Dartmouth College, Autumn 2013
  • Franke Visiting Fellow, Whitney Humanities Center,Yale University, Autumn 2012
  • Miller Scholar, Santa Fe Institute, Autumn 2011
  • Research Associate, Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 2007- . 
  • Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Trinity College, Hartford CT,  2001-2006
  • Scholar in Residence, Brandeis University, 1999-2000
  • Professor of Creative Writing, MFA Program, Columbia University, 1993-1996
  • Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Honors Program, Rutgers University, 1988-1990
  • Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Barnard College, 1976-86

Books (nonfiction)

Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won’t Go Away (Pantheon, 2014) Published in the UK (Atlantic Grove, 2014) Translations into fourteen languages

Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity (Nextbooks/Schocken, 2006).
Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel (Atlas Books/Norton, 2005). Translated into twelve languages

Books (fiction)

Thirty-Six Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction (Pantheon, 2010). Published in the UK by Atlantic Grove; translated into 16 languages. 
Properties of Light: A Novel of Love, Betrayal and Quantum Physics (Houghton Mifflin, 2000). Translated into German.
Mazel (Viking, 1995, reissued by The University of Wisconsin Press, 2000). Translated into German.
Strange Attractors: Stories (Viking, 1993, Penguin, 1994). Translated into Italian.
The Dark Sister (Viking, 1993, reissued by the University of Wisconsin Press, 2004)
The Late-Summer Passion of a Woman of Mind (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989)
The Mind-Body Problem (Random House, 1983; Dell, 1984; reissued by Penguin, 1994). Translated into German.

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