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2017
The Scientists and The Philosophers Should Be Friends. Free Inquiry. 2017;38 (1) :41-47.
Making Athens Great Again. The Atlantic Monthly. 2017;April.
Mattering Matters. Free Inquiry [Internet]. 2017;37 (2 ). Publisher's Version
2016
"My Five Favourite Philosophical Novels". [Internet]. 2016. Publisher's Version
"Plato on What Makes Us Tick and Why Math Matters So Much". Big Think. 2016.
"Is The US Too Democratic?". Big Think [Internet]. 2016. Publisher's Version
"What's Behind A Science Versus Philosophy Fight?". Big Think [Internet]. 2016. Publisher's Version
2015
"Flourishing in The Company of Like-Minded People". The Humanist [Internet]. 2015. Publisher's Version
"Don't Overthink It.". The Atlantic Monthly. 2015;May :101-104.
"How Good Can You Be?". New York Review of Books [Internet]. 2015;LXII (20) :58-60. Publisher's Version
"The Rapunzel Complex". In: Me, My Hair, and I: Twenty-Seven Women Untangle an Obsession,. New York : Algonquin ; 2015. pp. 1-7.
Review of Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World, by Tim Whitmarsh. The New York Times Book Review [Internet]. 2015. Publisher's Version
"What Philosophers Really Know". The New York Review of Books [Internet]. 2015;LXII (15) :48-50. Publisher's Version
New Afterword. In: Great Dialogues of Plato . Signet Classics ; 2015.
2014
"The Machinery Of Moral Progress: An Interview with Rebecca Newberger Goldstein". The Humanist [Internet]. 2014. Publisher's Version
Review ofThe Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science,by Armand Leroi. The New York Times Book Review [Internet]. 2014. Publisher's Version
"5 Answers," in Science and Religion: 5 Questions, edited by Gregg D. Caruso, Automatic Press. In: ; 2014.
What Would Plato Tweet?. The New York Times [Internet]. 2014. Read the Article
 How Philosophy Makes Progress. The Chronicle of Higher Education [Internet]. 2014. Read the Article
PLATO AT THE GOOGLEPLEX: Why Philosophy Won’t Go Away
Goldstein R. PLATO AT THE GOOGLEPLEX: Why Philosophy Won’t Go Away. Pantheon Books; 2014. Check out my Book TourAbstract
At the heart of the latest work from acclaimed philosopher and novelist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein lies one question: is philosophy obsolete? In PLATO AT THE GOOGLEPLEX (Pantheon Books/March 4), Goldstein proves why philosophy is here to stay – and in fact more relevant today than ever before – by revealing its hidden (though essential) role in today’s debates on religion, morality, politics, and science. Goldstein does so in a wholly unique way – by imagining Plato (the original philosopher) come to life in the twenty-first century. As he embarks on a multicity speaking tour, Goldstein asks: how would Plato handle a host on FOX News who denies that there can be morality without religion? How would he mediate a debate between a Freudian psychoanalyst and a Tiger Mom on how to raise the perfect child? How would he answer a neuroscientist who, about to scan Plato’s brain, argues that science has definitively answered the questions of free will and moral agency? And what would Plato make of Google, and the idea that knowledge can be crowdsourced rather than reasoned out by experts? Goldstein also provides an in-depth study of Plato’s views, while examining the culture responsible for producing them. With scholarly depth and a novelist’s imagination and wit, she probes the deepest issues confronting our time, by allowing us to understand the source of Plato’s theories, and to eavesdrop as he takes on the modern world.

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