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    • Biographical Sketch 

      Allott, Nicholas Elwyn; Lohndal, Terje; Rey, Georges (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2021)
      As the synoptic introduction makes clear, Noam Chomsky is a unique intellectual figure who has had a huge impact on several fields. He was almost single-handedly responsible for initiating the cognitive revolution in linguistics, and, with others such as George Miller, Hilary Putnam and Jerry Fodor, for the ensuing replacement of behaviorism by cognitive science in psychology generally, to say nothing ...

    • Chomsky's "Galilean" Explanatory Style 

      Allott, Nicholas Elwyn; Lohndal, Terje; Rey, Georges (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2021-04)
      <p>Chomsky pursues a methodology in linguistics that abstracts from substantial amounts of data about actual language use in a way that has met considerable resistance from many other linguists. He thinks of this method as like that employed by Galileo and later physicists who proposed laws of motion in considerable abstraction from many of the motions we observe in daily life, focusing, for example, ...

    • Synoptic introduction 

      Allott, Nicholas Elwyn; Lohndal, Terje; Rey, Georges (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2021)
      Noam Chomsky is justly famous for his revolutionary contributions to linguistics, psychology and philosophy. He is presently in his 92nd year, and we thought it high time to provide an overview of the major achievements of his now more than sixty-year-old research program and its prospects for the future. This is particularly pressing in the light of persistent rumors, encouraged by a number of ...