Rebecca Newberger Goldstein is the author of ten books, of both fiction and philosophy. Her novels include The Mind-Body Problem, Properties of Light: A Novel of Love, Betrayal and Quantum Physics , and 36 Arguments for The Existence of God: A Work of Fiction . She is also the author of Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel , named by Discover Magazine one of the best science books of its year, and the award-winning Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity . Her latest book is Plato at The Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won’t Go Away , published this past spring. The recipient of numerous awards for both her fiction and scholarship, in 1996 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, popularly known as the “Genius” Prize. She has also been named the Humanist of the Year by the American Humanist Association, and been elected into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is Professor of Philosophy at New College of the Humanities, London UK.