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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 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 view of a fundamental conception of the necessity of truth. "For me," Morris writes, "truth is about the relationship between language and the world: a correspondence idea of truth." He has no patience for philosophical systems that aim for internal coherence and disdain the world itself. Morris is after bigger game: he wants to establish as clearly as possible what we know and can say about the world, reality, history, our actions and interactions. It's the fundamental desire that animates his filmmaking, whether he's probing Robert McNamara about Vietnam or the oddball owner of a pet cemetery. Truth may be slippery, but that doesn't mean we have to grease its path of escape through philosophical evasions. Rather, Morris argues powerfully, it is our duty to do everything we can to establish and support it.

Paradigm (Theory of knowledge) --- Realism --- Kuhn, Thomas Samuel, - 1922-1996

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Science --- Irrationalism (Philosophy) --- Popper, Karl Raimund, - Sir, - 1902-1994 --- Kuhn, Thomas Samuel, - 1922-1996

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More than 50 years after the publication of Thomas Kuhn's seminal book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, this volume assesses the adequacy of the Kuhnian model in explaining certain aspects of science, particularly the social and epistemic aspects of science. One argument put forward is that there are no good reasons to accept Kunh's incommensurability thesis, according to which scientific revolutions involve the replacement of theories with conceptually incompatible ones. Perhaps, therefore, it is time for another "decisive transformation in the image of science by which we are now possessed." Only this time, the image of science that needs to be transformed is the Kuhnian one. Does the Kuhnian image of science provide an adequate model of scientific practice? If we abandon the Kuhnian picture of revolutionary change and incommensurability, what consequences would follow from that vis-à-vis our understanding of scientific knowledge as a social endeavour? The essays in this collection continue this debate, offering a critical examination of the arguments for and against the Kuhnian image of science as well as their implications for our understanding of science as a social and epistemic enterprise.

Philosophy of science --- Kuhn, Thomas S. --- Communication in science --- Science --- Methodology --- Kuhn, Thomas Samuel, --- Science - Methodology --- Kuhn, Thomas Samuel, - 1922-1996

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Philosophy of science --- Kuhn, Thomas S. --- Science --- Philosophy. --- Normal science --- Philosophy --- Kʻo-en, --- Kʻu-en, --- Kuhn, T. S. --- Kʻung-en, --- קון, תומאס ס. --- كون، توماس --- Kuhn, Thomas Samuel, --- Science - Philosophy. --- Kuhn, Thomas Samuel, - 1922-1996

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Science --- Sciences --- Philosophy --- Philosophie --- Popper, Karl R. --- Lakatos, Imre, --- Kuhn, Thomas S --- Feyerabend, Paul, --- Philosophie des sciences --- Philosophie et sciences --- Positivisme logique --- Épistémologie --- Kuhn, Thomas Samuel, --- Popper, Karl Raimund, --- Et les sciences --- Kuhn, Thomas S. --- Epistémologie --- Histoire des sciences --- Philosophie. --- Lakatos , Imre, --- Feyerabend , Paul, --- Feyerabend, Paul --- Et les sciences. --- Philosophie des sciences. --- Philosophie et sciences. --- Positivisme logique. --- Épistémologie. --- Lakatos, Imre --- Kuhn, Thomas Samuel --- Popper, Karl Raimund --- Sciences - Philosophie. --- Sciences - Philosophie --- Science - Philosophy --- Popper, Karl Raimund, - Sir, - 1902-1994 --- Kuhn, Thomas Samuel, - 1922-1996 --- Lakatos, Imre, - 1922-1974 --- Feyerabend , Paul, - 1924-1994 --- Feyerabend, Paul, - 1924-1994 --- Popper (sir karl raimund), philosophe britannique d'origine autrichienne, 1902-1994 --- Kuhn (thomas) --- Lakatos (imre), 1922-1974 --- Feyerabend (paul k.), philosophe americain d'origine autrichienne, 1924 --- -Positivisme logique --- Critique et interpretation --- FEYERABEND, PAUL (1924-1994) --- KUHN, THOMAS SAMUEL (1922-1996) --- LAKATOS, IMRE (1922-1974) --- LOGICAL POSITIVISM --- POPPER, KARL RAIMUND (1902-1994) --- SCIENCE --- PHILOSOPHY