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What
happens when a novelist and philosopher talks to a cognitive
neuroscientist about faith, reason, fiction, and God?
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Join us for an evening with...
Steven Pinker and Rebecca Goldstein
Mind-Body Problems:
A Conversation About Science, Fiction and God
 
Wednesday, February 17th, 6:30 p.m.
Thompson Room,
Harvard Center for the Humanities, Barker Center
Listen in as
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein and her husband Steven Pinker explore what
Spinoza would say about Darwin, what role fiction should play in
intellectual
life, whether any of the arguments for the existence of
God are any good, and other topics at the interface of literature,
science, and philosophy.
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Steven Pinker is Harvard
College Professor and Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. Pinker is one of the world's leading authorities on
language and the mind, and the the author of seven books, including
The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, Words and Rules, The Blank
Slate, and The Stuff of Thought.
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
is a philosopher, scholar, and award-winning novelist. Her latest novel is
36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction. Goldstein's
books include the novels The Mind-Body Problem, Properties of Light,
and Mazel, and nonfiction studies of Kurt Gödel and Baruch Spinoza. A recipient of a MacArthur
Foundation Fellowship in 1996, Goldstein has also received Guggenheim
and Radcliffe fellowships and is a member of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences.
Rebecca Goldstein
will discuss her new book,
36 Arguments
for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction
Porter Square
Books, February 25th
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PEN
(Poets/Playwrights,
Essayists/Editors, Novelists) New England is an organization of published authors, aspiring writers, and all who
love the written word. Our mission is to advance the cause of literature in New England
and defend free expression everywhere. PEN New England is a branch of PEN American Center, and part of International
PEN, the
oldest international literary organization and also the oldest human rights organization in the world.
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