In 1972, Thomas Kuhn, the philosopher of science who invented the idea of “paradigm shifts,” threw an ashtray at Morris, then a graduate student. This book is Morris’s attempt to throw that ashtray back. Pearl, winner of the 2011 Turing Award (as well as the father of Daniel Pearl), has focused his research on causality. “I’ve been reading, and finding totally astounding, Philip Roth’s THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA, which was published in 2004. But what I especially loved was just seeing Roth so thoroughly (and, I felt, credibly) manhandle historical facts and bend them to his will.

Source: New York Times May 08, 2018 14:37 UTC