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Rebecca Goldstein: "The Mattering Map: Religion, Humanism, and Moral Progress"

Recorded at the Center for Inquiry "Women in Secularism 2" conference, Friday, May 17, 2013, in Washington, D.C.

Rebecca Goldstein is a novelist and philosopher. She received her Ph.D. in philosophy from Princeton University, after which she taught at Barnard College, Columbia University. The recipient of many prizes for both fiction and scholarship, in 1996 she was awarded a MacArthur "Genius" Prize. Her first novel was the critically acclaimed bestseller The Mind-Body Problem, and there have been six more works of fiction, including her latest novel, 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 one of the top science books of 2005 by Discover Magazine, and of Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity, which received the Koret International Prize for Jewish Scholarship. She has been awarded several honorary doctorates, Guggenheim and Radcliffe fellowships, and is a Humanist Laureate. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005 and in 2011 was named the Humanist of the Year by the American Humanist Association and Free-thought Heroine by the Freedom from Religion Foundation.

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Video produced by Monica Harmsen with assistance from Adam Isaak and Bill Goodwin.

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