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Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (born February 23, 1950) is an American philosopher, novelist, and public intellectual.!

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Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (born February 23, 1950) is an American philosopher, novelist, and public intellectual.

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(Washington, D.C., Sept. 3, 2015)—The American Humanist Association is pleased to announce that prominent writer, philosopher, and humanist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein will receive the 2014 National Humanities Medal, the country’s highest honor in the humanities.

The American Humanist Association honored Goldstein with the Humanist of the Year Award in 2011. She is the author of six novels, including Thirty-Six Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction, publishedin 2010, and three nonfiction works, the latest being Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won’t Go Away (2014), a cogent and creative argument for the continued relevance of philosophy.

Her writing also appears in the Humanist, the American Humanist Association’s award-winning magazine.

“Rebecca Goldstein’s eloquent writing is profoundly impacting the humanist move