Noam Chomsky
Linguist and political critic
Noam Chomsky is an American linguist and political critic who helped found the field of cognitive science. He has written more than 100 books on language, war and politics.
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American Born 1928 in East Oak Lane, United States
Influenced by Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein
About Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky was born in Philadelphia on December 7, 1928, and studied at the University of Pennsylvania. He earned his doctorate in 1955 after developing transformational grammar at the Harvard Society of Fellows, and began teaching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) that year. His 1957 book Syntactic Structures became a landmark in linguistics. From the 1960s he became a prominent critic of US foreign policy, beginning with his opposition to the Vietnam War. With Edward S. Herman he set out the propaganda model of media criticism in Manufacturing Consent. Understanding Power and Who Rules the World? are among his other titles here. He is now an emeritus professor at MIT, and he also holds a professorship in linguistics at the University of Arizona.