Noam Chomsky

Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is the Institute Professor Emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chomsky is credited with the creation of the theory of generative grammar, often considered the most significant contribution to the field of theoretical linguistics of the 20th century. He also helped spark the cognitive revolution in psychology through his review of B. F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior, which challenged the behaviorist approach to the study of mind and language dominant in the 1950s. His naturalistic approach to the study of language has also impacted the philosophy of language and mind (see Harman, Fodor). He is also credited with the establishment of the so-called Chomsky hierarchy, a classification of formal languages in terms of their generative power. Chomsky is also widely known for his political activism, and for his criticism of the foreign policy of the United States and other governments. Chomsky describes himself as a libertarian socialist, a sympathizer of anarcho-syndicalism.

External links

• Official website
• Official weblog (subset of forum replies)
• MIT homepage
• ZNet: Noam Chomsky Archive
• Bad News: The Noam Chomsky Archive
• A-Infos Radio Project: Talks by Noam Chomsky (MP3)
• Chomsky Torrents — Collection of Chomsky related video and audio
• Zpedia entry on Chomsky
• LookSmart — Noam Chomsky directory category
• Open Directory Project — Noam Chomsky directory category
• Yahoo! — Noam Chomsky directory category
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Select speeches and interviews

• The New War Against Terror, the Technology & Culture Forum at MIT, October 18, 2001 (transcript, RealAudio)
• C-SPAN Book TV In-Depth, 3-hour interview from June 1, 2003 (RealVideo)
• Talk and Q&A at UC Berkeley, on the massacres in Indonesia and East Timor, 1982 (MP3)
• Debate: Noam Chomsky and John Silber, on Sandinistas vs. Contras in Nicaragua, January 1, 1986 (transcript)
• Ohio State University Debate, Noam Chomsky vs. Richard Perle, 1988 (MP3)
• CNN Debate, Noam Chomsky vs. Bill Bennett, May 30, 2002 (transcript)
• Noam Chomsky on Charlie Rose, November 20, 2003 (RealAudio)
• Talk and Q&A at Boston College, March 23, 2003 (RealVideo)
• Government in the Future. Poetry Center, New York. February 16, 1970. (MP3)

Select articles

• Chomsky on Socialism
• Chomsky on Anarchism
• Chomsky on Intellectual Property

Articles about Chomsky

• Goldsmith, John. Review of Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent, by Robert Barsky. Journal of the History of the Behaviorial Sciences 1998 34.2: 173-180.
• Roy, Arundhati (2003). The Loneliness of Noam Chomsky, The Hindu.
• Pateman, Trevor (2004). Wittgensteinians and Chomskyans: In Defence of Mentalism, Language in Mind and Language in Society.