Thomas Kuhn, Hyperbole, and the Ashtray: Evidence of Morris' Faulty Memory.

Errol Morris has claimed that Kuhn threw an ashtray at him during a dispute about some matter in the history of science. Morris also claims that Kuhn threw him out of the graduate program at Princeton for disagreeing with him. I argue that Morris's attack on Kuhn contains some degree of hyperbole. F...

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Published in:	Philosophy of Science Vol. 90; no. 1; pp. 196 - 200
Main Author:	Wray, K. Brad
Format:	Article
Published:	Cambridge University Press Jan2023
Subjects:	Morris, Errol, 1948- Kuhn, Thomas S., 1922-1996 Hyperbole History of science Graduate education Memory
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