Rebecca Goldstein

Rebecca Goldstein     ( novelist,  philosopher)
Born	February 23, 1950  White Plains,  New York,  U.S.
Nationality	American
Ethnicity	Jewish
Alma mater	•  City College of New York •  University of California •  Los Angeles •  Barnard College •  Princeton University
Spouse	•  Sheldon Goldstein •  Steven Pinker
US WEF-connected philosopher and author who attended her first Bilderberg in 2018 where one of the subjects was The "post-truth" world. Spouse of Steven Pinker.

Dr. Rebecca Newberger Goldstein is a novelist and philosopher. She attended her first Bilderberg in June 2018. In March 2018, she wrote an article in the Wall Street Journal on "Truth Isn't the Problem - We Are". One of the Bilderberg subjects was The "post-truth" world.

Education

Rebecca Newberger attended the City College of New York, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Barnard College. She received her doctorate with the dissertation Reduction, realism, and the mind in 1976 under Thomas Nagel at Princeton University.

Career

Already her first novel The mind-body problem dealt with a philosophical problem. She has written biographies about the philosopher Kurt Gödel and about Spinoza.

Goldstein has taught philosophy as a lecturer at Barnard College,Columbia University, Rutgers University, and Trinity College in Hartford. She was invited as a visiting professor at various universities, in 2006 she was a Guggenheim Fellow. Goldstein writes for the New York Times Book Review.

In 1996, Goldstein was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship. In 2005 she became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Emerson College in Boston gave her an honorary doctorate in 2008. She was awarded the National Humanities Medal for 2014.

Marriages

Goldstein married Sheldon Goldstein in 1969, with whom she has two children and from whom she divorced in 1999. Since 2007 she has been married to the experimental psychologist and Jeffrey Epstein associate Steven Pinker.

She was selected to sit on the Council on Values of the World Economic Forum.

Bilderberg 2018

Rebecca Goldstein attended her first Bilderberg in June 2018. In March 2018, she wrote an article in the Wall Street Journal on "Truth Isn't the Problem - We Are". One of the Bilderberg subjects was The "post-truth" world.

Democratic debate is never a strict weighing of evidence; emotional appeals to party, cause and country are always part of the mix. But our readiness today to proudly defy evidence is very troubling. It undermines our commitment to the truth-and our capacity to reach any sort of middle ground or consensus...

We have lost the capacity to limit the reach of our ideologies and the identities that go with them.

Indeed, a pledge of political allegiance achieves greater authenticity if it flies in the face of counter-evidence, especially if that evidence comes from "so-called experts." My insistence that "Human actions have no impact on global warming" gains immeasurably, as a pledge, from the fact that 97% of climate scientists disagree with me; it highlights the depth of my commitment to the cause.

As a political matter, the difficulty with the postmodernist vision - of truth supplanted by power struggles - is that it can just as easily fit with any right-wing view. If truth has no deeper basis than power, who's to say that the assertions of Trump supporters are wrong? They won, after all, and isn't that what truth, ultimately, is about?

...it is certainly the case that new media bear some of the blame, with their unprecedented capacity to distort and heighten every point of ideological disagreement and to disseminate it far and wide.

 

Event Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/2018	7 June 2018	10 June 2018	Italy Turin Hotel Torino Lingotto Congress	The 66th Bilderberg Meeting, in Turin, Italy, known for months in advance after an unprecedented leak by the Serbian government.

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