Defending Science: An Exchange
By MICHAEL P. LYNCH and ALAN SOKAL
March 11, 2012
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/defending-science-an-exchangeLast fall, after Michael Lynch’s essay “Reasons for Reason” appeared in The Stone, he began correspondence with the physicist, mathematician and writer Alan Sokal about the nature and limits of scientific rationality. The following exchange is adapted from that original dialogue.