the end of the errol morris series just shows perfectly clearly that (a) the thing is a personal grudge (and too late! the guy is dead dead dead), and (b) morris does not have the equipment actually to grapple with kuhn's position. if only it was that easy! morris's grudge might have been richly motivated fifty years ago. but alien abductions? flat earth? these objections were answered and exhausted before kuhn even finished his book. ridiculing kuhn as a total irrationalist etc is just not engaged in his writings, and ridiculing the way he sucked on a cig of course doesn't help at all. no one would have read kuhn if the position was that mind-numbingly implausible. (and again, i speak as a realist.) the sensation kuhn had when he read aristotle was the sensation of entering into a globally different way of thinking. he saw how it hung together, saw what happens when, for example, you take seriously the concept of final cause. well you need to have that sensation, even if you also need to narrate a somewhat more continuous set of developments than kuhn's structure suggests. but then you just take the stupidest thing that aristotle ever said (women have fewer teeth than men), and discredit the whole worldview on that basis, and then accuse kuhn of agreeing? dude please. and it does make you re-think the grudge a little. it makes you wonder how carefully morris ever read anything, makes you see why kuhn might throw an ashtray.