Spinoza: The Renegade Jew who Gave Us Modernity Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2005 Honorary Doctorate, Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership MacArthur Fellow, 1996 National Jewish Book Award, 1995, for Mazel Edward Lewis Wallant Award, 1995, for Mazel National Jewish Book Award for her book of short stories, Strange Attractors Graduated summa cum laude from Barnard College, receiving the Montague Prize for Excellence in Philosophy While at Princeton University, she was awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship Whiting Award, 1991 Bibliography Fiction Thirty-Six Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction (2010) Properties of Light: A Novel of Love, Betrayal, and Quantum Physics (2000) Mazel (1995) The Dark Sister (1993) The Late-Summer Passion of a Woman of Mind (1989) The Mind-Body Problem (1983) Short stories Strange Attractors: Stories (1993) Nonfiction Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away (2014) Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity (2006) Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel (2005) See also American philosophy List of American philosophers List of novelists from the United States Philosophical fiction References External links 1950 births Living people 20th-century American novelists 21st-century American novelists 21st-century American philosophers Jewish American atheists American humanists American women short story writers American short story writers Barnard College alumni Barnard College faculty Trinity College (Connecticut) faculty Brandeis University faculty Columbia University faculty Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Jewish American novelists Jewish philosophers MacArthur Fellows New Atheism People from Truro, Massachusetts People from White Plains, New York Princeton University alumni Rutgers University faculty American scholars of ancient Greek philosophy Women classical scholars American women philosophers Writers from Boston Novelists from New York (state) American women essayists American women novelists 21st-century American women writers 21st-century American biographers American women biographers National Humanities Medal recipients Spinoza scholars Novelists from New Jersey Novelists from Massachusetts Novelists from Connecticut 21st-century American essayists