Philosopher · Twentieth century · United States
Noam Chomsky
1928–
American linguist and thinker whose Syntactic Structures of 1957 argued that the human mind is born with a universal grammar. He became equally known as a critic of American foreign policy. Born 1928, living.
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- Born
- 1928, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Noam Chomsky
- School
- Generative linguistics; analytic philosophy of language.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Noam Chomsky
- Known for
- Universal grammar, the poverty of the stimulus argument, and the manufacturing consent critique of media.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Noam Chomsky
- Career
- Taught at MIT from 1955; among the most cited scholars alive.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Noam Chomsky
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