Introduction
Professor Noam Chomsky, born December 7, 1928, as Avram Noam Chomsky to middle-class Jewish working parents in East Oak Lane, Philadelphia, is an American linguist, cognitive scientist, logician, philosopher, and political activist. Often referred to as “the father of modern Linguistics,” “the world’s most important intellectual,” etc., Chomsky has made pioneering contributions to multiple fields, including Linguistics (a field he is primarily credited with founding in its modern form), Logic, Abstract Algebra, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Formal Languages, Cognitive Science, Cognitive Psychology, Philosophies of Mind and Language, and Anarchist and Syndicalist political theories, and is considered to be one of the pillars of Analytic Philosophy, particularly in the Rationalist tradition. Ranked as “among the eight most cited scholars, ever,” Chomsky is currently Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has...
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Mandal, S.S. (2019). Noam Chomsky. In: Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_630-1
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