Noam Chomsky

Tags: Philosopher.

Avram Noam Chomsky (/ˈnoʊm ˈtʃɒmski/; born December 7 1928) is an American linguist philosopher cognitive scientist logician political commentator and activist. Sometimes described as the father of modern linguistics Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy. He has spent most of his career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he is currently Professor Emeritus and has authored over 100 books.

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birth date

1928-12-07

birth place

Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, East Oak Lane Philadelphia

era

20th-century philosophy, Contemporary philosophy

individualised GND number

118520520

influenced

Daniel Dennett, Donald Knuth, Stephen Jay Gould, Crispin Wright, Colin McGinn, Niels Kaj Jerne, Aaron Swartz, Ann Nocenti, Hugo Chávez, Robert Fisk, Steven Pinker, John Searle, John Backus, Michael Albert, Daniel Everett, Norman Finkelstein, Amy Goodman, Morris Halle, Norbert Hornstein, Edward Said

influenced by

Adam Smith, Alan Turing, Bertrand Russell, David Hume, George Orwell, Immanuel Kant, John Dewey, Ludwig Wittgenstein, René Descartes, Zellig Harris, Hebrew literature, Dwight Macdonald, William Chomsky, Mikhail Bakunin, Peter Kropotkin, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Willard Van Orman Quine, Russian literature, Pāṇini, C. West Churchman, Rudolf Rocker, Alex Carey

LCCN Id

n/79/104267

main interest

Politics, Psychology, Metalinguistics, Philosophy of language, Philosophy of mind, Linguistics

philosophicalSchool

Generative linguistics, Analytic philosophy

region

Western philosophy