Rebecca Goldstein
Auteur van Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel
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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)
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- Princeton University (PhD|Philosophy|1977)
Barnard College (AB summa cum laude|1972) - Beroepen
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- Nagel, Thomas (dissertation advisor)
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- Harvard University
Dartmouth College
Trinity College
Brandeis University
New College of the Humanities [London, UK] - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- 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) (toon alle 8)
Honorary Doctorate, Emerson College (2008)
National Humanities Medal (2015)
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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.… (meer)