[LCM Events] This THURSDAY... Dr. Chomsky @ MIT... 7pm.. room 54-100

[Nour Abdul-Razzak]

Palestine at MIT, MIT Arab Students Organization, and MIT Muslim Students
Association are proud to host:

 *The current crisis in the Middle East*

Dr. Noam Chomsky



Thursday September 21, 2006 at 7:00 PM in MIT room 54-100

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Avram Noam Chomsky is the Institute Professor Emeritus of linguistics at
MIT. Chomsky 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.

Noam Chomsky 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.

Chomsky'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, Chomsky 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 (Chomsky (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.

For More info on Dr. Chomsky visit http://www.chomsky.info/bios.htm


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