CHOMSKY: Well, now you've raised the question of why behaviorist psychology has such an enormous vogue, particularly in the United States. And I'm not sure what the answer to that is. I think, in part ...

Is Chomsky's influence on psychology waning? ... In 1982, the linguist James D. McCawley published a book with the jocular title Thirty Million Theories of Grammar. It’s become worse.

The theories of the world’s best-known linguist have become rather weird ... Einstein in physics and Freud in psychology, perhaps. But Noam Chomsky is the man who revolutionised linguistics.

Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is the Institute Professor Emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor Chomsky is credited with the creation of the ...

But Chomsky’s theory of universal grammar doesn’t deal with how we learn our native languages. It’s focused on the innate capacity that makes all our language learning possible.

In detail, Chomsky’s theories are incomprehensible. I used to draw a comparison with nuclear physics, which for most of us seems difficult – but necessarily so. I tended to give Chomsky the benefit of ...

Noam Chomsky, the controversial author and professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been voted the world’s leading public intellectual from a list of 100 ...

Is Chomsky's influence on psychology waning? Posted March 21, 2018 ... In 1982, the linguist James D. McCawley published a book with the jocular title Thirty Million Theories of Grammar.