The Ashtray (Or the Man Who Denied Reality) : The University of Chicago Press : 9780226922683 : 0226922685 : 18 May 2018 : 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, 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 the larger culture. And Morris thought the idea was bunk.   The Ashtray tells why?and in doing so, it makes a powerful case for Morris's way of viewing the world, and the centrality to that v