Rebecca Newberger Goldstein is the author of ten books, of both fiction and philosophy.  Her novels include The Mind-Body Problem, Properties of Light: A Novel of Love, Betrayal and Quantum Physics, and 36 Arguments for The Existence of God: A Work of Fiction.  She is also the author of Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel, named by Discover Magazine one of the best science books of its year, and the award-winning Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity. Her latest book is Plato at The Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won’t Go Away, published this past spring. The recipient of numerous awards for both her fiction and scholarship, in 1996 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, popularly known as the “Genius” Prize. In awarding her the prize, the foundation wrote that “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.” 

She has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and been named the Humanist of the Year, in 2011. She is currently a research assistant at Harvard University and Professor of Philosophy at New College of the Humanities, London UK. She also serves on the World Economic Forum’s Global Council on Values. In 2016 she will join the faculty of New York University in both the English and philosophy departments.