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Rebecca Goldstein : "Philosophy and Literature: The Ancient Quarrel"

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein is a philosopher and award-winning novelist whose work combines science, understanding, self-understanding and imaginative storytelling.

Monday, September 30, 2013
4:30pm – 6:30pm
Filene Auditorium, Moore Building
Intended Audience(s): Public
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Rebecca Newberger Goldstein is a philosopher and award-winning novelist whose work combines science, understanding, self-understanding and imaginative storytelling. Her work in philosophy includes Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel, and Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Gave Us Modernity. Plato in the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away will be published in March, 2014. Her novels include the best-selling Mind-Body Problem, The Dark Sister, Properties of Light: A Novel of Love, Betrayal and Quantum Physics, and Mazel, all award winners. Her latest novel is 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction. Goldtein is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships for her scholarship and fiction, including Guggenheim and National Science Foundation scholarship, and MacArthur "Genius" Prize.

For more information, contact:
Ellen Henderson
ellen.henderson@dartmouth.edu
603-646-4062
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