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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: ashtray
    sub title: (or the man who denied reality)
  name:
    name part: Morris, Errol
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ilu
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xv, 207 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: The ultimatum -- Shifting paradigms -- A parliament of fears -- Listen, old man, what in hell's gone wrong here? -- Revolutions, real and imagined -- The leap into the dark -- The furniture of the world -- Avatars of progress -- The contest of interpretation.
  note: Errol Morris.
  note: Illustrations on endpapers.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-200) and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Kuhn, Thomas S
  subject:
    topic: Paradigm (Theory of knowledge)
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology
  classification: Q175 .M8685 2018
  classification: 501
  identifier: 9780226922683
  identifier: 0226922685
  identifier: 9780226922706
  identifier: 2017038261
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 170810
    record change date: 20181023094102.0
    record identifier: in00004009081