THE ASHTRAY

In 1972, philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn threw an ashtray at Errol Morris. This book is the result. At the time, Morris was a gra duate student. Now we know him as one of the most celebrated and restlessly probing filmmakers of our time, the creator of such clas sics of documentary investigation as The Thin Blue Line and The Fog of War. Kuhn, meanwhile, wasand, posthumously, remainsa star i n his field, the author of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, a landmark book that has sold well over a million copies and int roduced th...[Read more]