The Ashtray: (Or the Man Who Denied Reality)

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. Kuhn was-and, posthumously, remains-a star in his field and author of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, a landmark book that introduced the concept of "paradigm shifts...