[1] Goodman is also an academic, scholar, and a historian with research interest in metaphysics, ethics, and Jewish philosophy.
[1] His family moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts and later to Putney, Vermont before finally settling in Los Angeles, California.
[1] In 1965, Goodman completed a bachelor's degree in Philosophy and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures at Harvard University.
Particularly, he maintained that the Dutch thinker's philosophy addresses the problems that the Jewish philosophical tradition share with other school through creative and constructive solutions.
In reconstructing Spinoza, Goodman, said that God becomes the image of imperfect humanity not because perfection "becomes an active principle at work in the mind".
[1] He also published a study called Maimonidean Naturalism, which belonged to the body of literature that attempted to articulate Maimonides views on creation.