Rebecca Goldstein
Autor/a de Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel
Sobre l'autor
Rebecca Goldstein graduated summa cum laude from Barnard College and received her Ph.D. from Princeton University in the philosophy of science. She has taught philosophy at Barnard. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Bowker Author Biography)
Obres de Rebecca Goldstein
Strange attractions 1 exemplars
The ancient quarrel : philosophy and literature 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Seeing Further: The Story of Science, Discovery, and the Genius of the Royal Society (2010) — Col·laborador — 1,019 exemplars
This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking (2012) — Col·laborador — 792 exemplars
Me, My Hair, and I: Twenty-seven Women Untangle an Obsession (2015) — Col·laborador; Col·laborador — 140 exemplars
America and I: Short Stories by American Jewish Women Writers (1990) — Col·laborador — 118 exemplars
Face to Face: Women Writers on Faith, Mysticism, and Awakening (2004) — Col·laborador — 33 exemplars
The New Diaspora: The Changing Landscape of American Jewish Fiction (2015) — Col·laborador — 13 exemplars
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- Altres noms
- Newberger Goldstein, Rebecca
Newberger, Rebecca (birth name) - Data de naixement
- 1950-02-23
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- White Plains, New York, USA
- Llocs de residència
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Truro, Massachusetts, USA - Educació
- Princeton University (PhD|Philosophy|1977)
Barnard College (AB summa cum laude|1972) - Professions
- philosopher
university professor
novelist - Relacions
- Nagel, Thomas (dissertation advisor)
Pinker, Steven (spouse)
Love, Yael Goldstein (daughter) - Organitzacions
- Harvard University
Dartmouth College
Trinity College
Brandeis University
New College of the Humanities [London, UK] - Premis i honors
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2005)
Whiting Foundation Fellowship
MacArthur Fellowship (1996)
Guggenheim Fellowship
Radcliffe Fellowship
Humanist Laureate, International Academy of Humanism (2008) (mostra-les totes 8)
Honorary Doctorate, Emerson College (2008)
National Humanities Medal (2015)
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 16
- També de
- 20
- Membres
- 3,364
- Popularitat
- #7,584
- Valoració
- 3.8
- Ressenyes
- 109
- ISBN
- 67
- Llengües
- 11
- Preferit
- 7
It’s funny but my family visited Spain recently and while we spent so much time taking in the muslim influence in the country, the history of torture, of burning people at the stake, converting Jews to Catholicism, and rescinding their citizenship was wholly missing from the story.
While Cordoba, Girona, and Barcelona were great centres of Jewish life and letters, including the rise of Kaballa mysticism.
Goldstein see s this history and the subsequent rise of the Sephardim community in Amsterdam as central to Spinoza’s inspired rationalism.… (més)