<span class="gmail_quote"><br></span><br><div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="2">Palestine@MIT, MIT Arab Students Organization, and MIT Muslim Students Association are proud to host:
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*The current crisis in the Middle East*</font><br></div><font size="6"><br></font><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="6"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Dr. Noam <span name="st"><span name="st">
<span name="st">Chomsky</span></span></span></span></font><br></div>
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Thursday <font size="4">September 21</font>, 2006 at <font size="4">7:00 PM</font> in MIT room <font size="4">54-100</font><br></div><br><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=54-100&mapsearch=go" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=54-100&mapsearch=go</a>><br></div><br><br><font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" size="2">Avram Noam <span name="st"><span name="st">Chomsky</span></span> is the Institute Professor Emeritus of linguistics at MIT.
<span name="st"><span name="st">Chomsky</span></span> is credited with the creation of the theory of generative grammar, considered to be one of the most significant contributions to the field of theoretical linguistics made in the 20th century.
<br><br></font>Noam <span name="st"><span name="st">Chomsky</span></span> has been engaged in political activism all of his adult
life and expressed a wide range of opinions on politics and world
events which are widely cited, publicized and discussed.<br><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="2"><span name="st"><span name="st">Chomsky</span></span>'s intellectual life had been divided between his work in
linguistics and his political activism, philosophy coming as a distant
third. Nonetheless, his influence among analytic philosophers has been
enormous due to three factors. First, <span name="st"><span name="st">Chomsky</span></span> contributed substantially
to a major methodological shift in the human sciences, turning away
from the prevailing empiricism of the middle of the twentieth century:
behaviorism in psychology, structuralism in linguistics and positivism
in philosophy. Second, his groundbreaking books on syntax (<span name="st"><span name="st">Chomsky</span></span>
(1957, 1965)) laid a conceptual foundation for a new, cognitivist
approach to linguistics and provided philosophers with a new framework
for thinking about human language and the mind. And finally, he has
persistently defended his views against all takers, engaging in
important debates with many of the major figures in analytic philosophy
(Tyler Burge, Donald Davidson, Michael Dummett, Saul Kripke, Thomas
Nagel, Hilary Putnam, Willard Van Orman Quine, John Searle, to cite a
few) throughout his career.</font></p>
<br><div style="text-align: center;">For More info on Dr. <span name="st"><span name="st"><span name="st">Chomsky</span></span></span> visit <a href="http://www.chomsky.info/bios.htm" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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</a><br><br></div><br><div style="text-align: center;">~~THIS EVENT IS OPEN AND FREE TO THE PUBLIC...SPREAD THE WORD~~</div>
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