Noam Chomsky
Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, political activist, author, and lecturer. He is an Institute Professor and professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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| Born | December 7, 1928 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Era | 20th / 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western Philosophy |
| School | Linguistics |
Main interests | Linguistics · Psychology Philosophy of language Politics · Ethics |
Notable ideas | Generative grammar |
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Linguistics
Chomsky created the theory of generative grammar. This is one of the most important contributions to the field of linguistics made in the 20th century. He also helped start the cognitive revolution in psychology through his review of B. F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior. He challenged the behaviorist way of looking at behavior and language. This was the main approach used in the 1950s. His natural approach to the study of language also changed the philosophy of language and mind. He also invented the Chomsky hierarchy, a way of looking at formal languages in terms of their power to explain language.
According to the Arts and Humanities Citation Index in 1992, Chomsky was cited as a source more often than any other living scholar during the 1980–1992 time period. He was the eighth-most cited scholar in any time period.[1][2][3]
Politics
In the 1960s he criticized the Vietnam War. Because of that, Chomsky became more widely known for his media criticism and politics. He is a key intellectual figure within the left wing of United States politics. Chomsky is widely known for his political activism, and for his criticism of capitalism and the foreign policy of the United States and other governments. Chomsky often calls himself a libertarian socialist and an anarcho-syndicalist, and he has talked and written extensively on these subjects. He is a member of the Industrial Workers of the World, following his father William Chomsky who was also a member.[4]
In late 2015, Chomsky announced his support for Vermont U.S. senator Bernie Sanders in the upcoming 2016 United States presidential election.[5]
Noam Chomsky Media
Carol Schatz married Chomsky in 1949.
The Great Dome at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Chomsky began working at MIT in 1955.
Noam Chomsky (8 December 1977)
Chomsky speaking in support of the Occupy movement in 2011
Chomsky discussing ecology, ethics and anarchism in 2014
Set inclusions described by the Chomsky hierarchy
Chomsky at the 2003 World Social Forum, a convention for counter-hegemonic globalization, in Porto Alegre
Wasserman and Chomsky in 2014
Chomsky receiving an award from the president of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, David Krieger (2014)
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Notes
- ↑ Chomsky is citation champ. MIT News Office. 1992-04-15. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/1992/citation-0415.html. Retrieved 2007-09-03.
- ↑ Hughes, Samuel. Speech!. The Pennsylvania Gazette. http://www.chomsky.info/onchomsky/200107--.htm. Retrieved 2007-09-03. "According to a recent survey by the Institute for Scientific Information, only Marx, Lenin, Shakespeare, Aristotle, the Bible, Plato, and Freud are cited more often in academic journals than Chomsky, who edges out Hegel and Cicero.".
- ↑ Robinson, Paul (1979-02-25). The Chomsky Problem. "Judged in terms of the power, range, novelty and influence of his thought, Noam Chomsky is arguably the most important intellectual alive today. He is also a disturbingly divided intellectual.".
- ↑ Stirner, Max (April 2012). Noam Chomsky & Workers' Control. p. 22. http://www.rebelworker.org/archive/sparks/sparks%20March%20-%20April%202012.pdf. Retrieved 2012-12-18.
- ↑ Lewis, Paul (June 19, 2015). "Inside the mind of Bernie Sanders: unbowed, unchanged, and unafraid of a good fight". The Guardian. London. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on January 17, 2016. Retrieved October 26, 2017.
References
- Barsky, Robert F. (1997). Noam Chomsky: a life of dissent. Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 978-1550222821. Archived from the original on 2008-01-12. Retrieved 2008-01-18.
- Chomsky, Noam (1996). Perspectives on Power. Montréal: Black Rose. ISBN 978-1551640488.
- Kreisler, Harry (2002-03-22). "Activism, Anarchism, and Power: Conversation with Noam Chomsky". Conversations with History. Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley. Archived from the original on 2017-10-10. Retrieved 2007-09-03.
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- Official website
- Why It's Over For America, by Noam Chomsky, The Independent, May 30, 2006 Archived January 5, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- MIT homepage Archived 2007-02-10 at the Wayback Machine
- Noam Chomsky on IMDb
- Conversation with Noam Chomsky Archived 2017-10-10 at the Wayback Machine
- NY Times article on Chomsky—September 22, 2006
- Video of Chomsky's talk 'Force, law and the possibilities for survival' in March 2005
- joint Noam Chomsky—Howard Zinn interview, April 16 2007 part one Archived 2007-11-14 at the Wayback Machine part two Archived 2007-11-14 at the Wayback Machine
- On nedia: State of Nature interview with Noam Chomsky (September, 2006)