Rebecca Newberger Goldstein: ‘Science is our best answer, but it takes a philosophical argument to prove that’

What’s more, science has begun to progress into areas previously occupied by philosophy and the humanities at large. These incursions have not gone unchallenged. Last year the debate flared up in a much-publicised intellectual spat between the cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker and the cultural critic Leon Wieseltier, who accused Pinker and his fellow scientists of practising “scientism”, a term