"Socrates Must Die: Why the Greeks Invented Philosophy"

A lecture by philosopher and writer Rebecca Newberger Goldstein . Wednesday, 4 p.m., April 29th at Faculty Lounge, 8th Floor, Hunter College, 68th Street and Lexington. Goldstein is the author, most recently, of Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won’t Go Away. The book was described by The Atlantic Magazine as “ingenious, entertaining, and challenging” and by the Harvard philosopher Hilary Putnam as “important, amazing.” Goldstein’s earlier works include Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity; The Mind-Body Problem; The Late-Summer Passion of a Woman of Mind; The Dark Sister, which received the Whiting Writer’s Award, Mazel, which received the 1995 National Jewish Book Award and the 1995 Edward Lewis Wallant Award; and Properties of Light: A Novel of Love, Betrayal, and Quantum Physics. Her book of short stories, Strange Attractors, received a National Jewish Book Honor Award. Her 2005 book Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel was named one of the best books of the year by Discover magazine, the Chicago Tribune, and the New York Sun. Her most recent novel is Thirty-Six Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction (2010). A 1996 MacArthur Fellow, Goldstein received her B.A. from Barnard College and her Ph.D. in Philosophy from Princeton University.

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When	Apr 29, 2015 from 04:00 pm to 05:00 pm
Where	Faculty Lounge, 8th Floor, Hunter College, 68th Street and Lexington.
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