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Rebecca Goldstein trained as a philosopher of science at Princeton before writing eleven books that fold philosophical argument into fiction, most notably The Mind–Body Problem, which introduced her concept of the 'mattering map' — an idea that later spread into cultural criticism, psychology, and behavioral economics. She has argued throughout her nonfiction that philosophy, like science, makes real progress, and won a MacArthur Fellowship and the National Humanities Medal for the body of work.