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The book is written in a style that utilizes images that correspond with many of the arguments in the text. There is artwork on nearly every page that is gathered from all over the world. From discussing Kuhn and
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ashtray full of cigarette butts at Morris. Following the incident Morris left Princeton. Morris uses the ashtray as a metaphor for the
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that Morris believes Kuhn denied, as well what Morris views as Kuhn's intolerance of dissent from his theories.
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Index


Errol Morris
Philosophy of science
epistemology
University of Chicago Press
ISBN
9780226922683
Errol Morris
Thomas Kuhn
Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton
James Clerk Maxwell
displacement current
incommensurability
cut glass
material reality
relativist
idealist
epistemology
Hilary Putnam
Saul Kripke
naïve realism
Paradigm shift
Noam Chomsky
Los Angeles Review of Books
Philip Kitcher
Samuel Johnson
appeal to the stone
George Berkeley
subjective idealism

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