The Ashtray: (Or the Man Who Denied Reality)

by Errol Morris

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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, remains--a star in his field, the author of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, a landmark book that has sold well over a million copies and introduced the concept of "paradigm shifts" to...Read more
  • ISBN13 9780226922683
  • Publish Date 22 May 2018
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University of Chicago Press