Rebecca Newberger Goldstein is a professor of philosophy and novelist. She is the author of ten books, of both fiction and non-fiction. Her last novel was 36 Arguments for the Existence of God:A Work of Fiction, and her last non-fiction book was Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won’t Go Away. Her new book, The Mattering Instinct, will be published in 2026. The recipient of many awards for both fiction and scholarship, in 2015 she was awarded The National Medal of the Humanities by President Obama in a ceremony at the White House.
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
