The Ashtray: (Or the Man Who Denied Reality)

Filmmaker Errol Morris offers his perspective on the world and his powerful belief in the necessity of truth.

In 1972, philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn threw an ashtray at Errol Morris. This book is the result.

At the time, Morris was a graduate student. Now we know him as one of the most celebrated and restlessly probing filmmakers of our time, the creator of such classics of documentary investigation as The Thin Blue Line and The Fog of War. Kuhn, meanwhile, was—and, posthumously, rem...