Rebecca Newberger Goldstein @platobooktour
Philosopher and novelist; 2014 National Humanities Medal rebeccagoldstein.com Joined February 2014-
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I'm eager to read this book with the voices of so many people I admire and am proud to be included in it.
I'm eager to read this book with the voices of so many people I admire and am proud to be included in it.
This moving article has me breaking my break with thise site. shorturl.at/aotvQ
“Like what Melanie Klein would write if she wrote novels and was funny” is the review I never knew I craved. Now I want people to say this and only ever this about my fiction. Thank you for this compliment and eventual tombstone inscription, @the_mel_jar!
“Like what Melanie Klein would write if she wrote novels and was funny” is the review I never knew I craved. Now I want people to say this and only ever this about my fiction. Thank you for this compliment and eventual tombstone inscription, @the_mel_jar!
This past Friday marked the 381st anniversary of Baruch #Spinoza, the renegade Jew who gave us modernity, according to John & Ken's guest in our 2015 episode, Rebecca Goldstein (@platobooktour)—LISTEN: philosophytalk.org/shows/spinoza @KALW #philosophy
cbsnews.com/news/the-story… Another untold story
Please help me remember: In the 1970's there was a cult--it might have been associated with libertarianism--that took views re. foundations of mathematics, imputing nefarious political intentions to things like Cantor's diagonal argument. Anyone remember?
This is my daughter. Her description of her childhood: “I kind of grew up around a quantum mechanics seminar table.” It’s accurate. tinyurl.com/h3z5tevx
The New York Times Book Review confirms it: Yael Goldstein-Love's new novel is "beautiful, exciting . . .head-spinning."
Announcing our pre-season, online event with novelist @ygoldlove (The Possibilities, @randomhouse)! Tues., Aug 22 (12 pm EST), she'll read and answer questions before sharing a prompt for generative writing time (all genres.) Free registration: brownbaglit.com/events
Maternal worry gets at the heart of what is terrifying about being alive. @ygoldlove on the maternal anxiety that informs her enthralling speculative thriller, THE POSSIBILITIES (@randomhouse | 7/25). slate.com/human-interest… via @Slate
To all my Boston-area friends. I hope to see you here to celebrate my daughter's novel--a psychological thriller masquerading as sci-fi.
I've been a slacker in tweeting about the series of philosophy lectures I recorded back during the pandemic.
I got stood up by an interviewer today. I still can't believe it isn't my fault. These screwups are usually entirely on me--and I'm not convinced this one is an exception.
I'm described as a "tart and special guest" on this podcast that starts at 4 pm EST. Here's the link for being able to call in and question whether I live up to the billing. callin.com/room/tart-and-…
I wonder what I might have meant by someone's "actually believing in mathematics."
I wonder what I might have meant by someone's "actually believing in mathematics."
Renowned philosopher @platobooktour explores the timeless wisdom of The Socratic Method. Learn to apply self-critical reasoning to your beliefs and unlock greater clarity and understanding. Join her now! youtu.be/lCvvUUgMI9A
A poet who knows her Spinoza! @deblaublau & free necessity
A poet who knows her Spinoza! @deblaublau & free necessity
I finally took a peek--with the sound off--of this series. It seems okay! youtube.com/watch?v=g5QfNs…
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I'm eager to read this book with the voices of so many people I admire and am proud to be included in it.
Maybe a bit against the sentiment (and yet, what's happening in Gaza is horrible), but I was listening to some music and this is such a heartbreaking tune (Sephardic Jewish, from 1935) "Let's escape the horrors and go to Palestine" youtube.com/watch?v=O2siNj…
Barely on this site anymore but I managed to do one worthwhile thing here: bringing together @platobooktour & @Helenreflects for a raw conversation on philosophy, mortality, and ambivalent fear/nervy denial of an afterlife. Well worth the time if you're doomscrolling anyway.
@Helenreflects @gregmepstein @TJamesAllen We've never met but I feel I know you some from reading you. There's much to terrify us both at the moment, much to make us feel despair, & the world seems so cold & hostile, so venal & dishonest, wh doesn't help. We have to both find the currents of warmth in all this coldness.
I want to study the Sephardic repertoire a bit better when I feel better/up to it, but here's an imperfect rendition in bad Ladino of the wedding song Scalerica De Oro--the bride has no money, but we wish her good fortune...
Anyone auditioning to be president of Harvard (or a similarly elite institution) should be required to write an essay on higher education addressed to first-year students. Here's an example: harvardmagazine.com/2013/08/self-f…
“Like what Melanie Klein would write if she wrote novels and was funny” is the review I never knew I craved. Now I want people to say this and only ever this about my fiction. Thank you for this compliment and eventual tombstone inscription, @the_mel_jar!
It reminds me of Aimee Bender and Everything Everywhere All at Once and maybe something Melanie Klein would write, if she wrote fiction, and had more of a sense of humor, and lived in the 2020s. You should read it if you're a mom, definitely, but also if any of that appeals, too.
Me and little Darragh. Have to say, he's terrible at reading sheet music. Took him forever to get through that etude, and he made so many mistakes.
I finished The Possibilities today. It's a wonderful novel, heartfelt, smart & marvelously destablizing. It captures the complexities of motherhood in a way I've never seen before
This is my daughter. Her description of her childhood: “I kind of grew up around a quantum mechanics seminar table.” It’s accurate. tinyurl.com/h3z5tevx
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Beautiful and profound piece about motherhood from @ygoldlove Maternal worry gets at the heart of what is terrifying about being alive. slate.com/human-interest… via @Slate B
Maternal worry gets at the heart of what is terrifying about being alive. @ygoldlove on the maternal anxiety that informs her enthralling speculative thriller, THE POSSIBILITIES (@randomhouse | 7/25). slate.com/human-interest… via @Slate
No card-carrying thermodynamicist can visit Vienna without paying homage. Thanks to @gfasol for the directions to his ancestors' site.
Musings on quantum mechanics (a thread with a few technical terms): It's interesting how the big questions in science are always there, but they jostle for position as to which is fashionable at any given time and for any generation of scientists and philosophers. 1/17
Great thrill earlier this evening to receive (with Peter Singer) the 2015 BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Humanities & Social Sciences frontiersofknowledgeawards-fbbva.es
The threat has not been resolved, and justice has not yet been served The historically Black town famous for the Harlem Renaissance’s Zora Neale Hurston escapes threat from housing developer fortune.com/2023/04/01/zor…
In 2013 Ellen P. Hunt and I prepared the successful National Register of Historic Places nomination for the Buffalo Zoo Gates #4 designed by Mr. Brent. John E. Brent Garden Dedication | MLK Jr. Park | Oct 27, 2022 youtu.be/n0VJUUK47RE via @YouTube @mmmgoodies @Lisa_J_Jennings
Richard Feynman's Lectures on Physics are timeless: their main strength is in demonstrating how to reason about physics. You may not know all the lectures are completely online: Volume 1: feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_toc.html Volume 2: feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/II_toc.html Volume 3: feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/III_toc.html
@JonHaidt @glukianoff It's best to avoid pathologizing the beliefs of people you disagree with when non-pathologizing hypotheses are available. Here's a non-pathologizing explanation: climate change projections keep getting worse, they affect the young most, and liberals are less likely to deny them.