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Early Life
Noam Chomsky was born in 1928 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Noam went to an Elementary School that allowed children to freely explore their interests, because of this Noam became interest in the field of Linguistics through being the editor in the school newspaper. -
Academia
At age 16 Noam entered the University of Pennsylvania but could not satiate his curiosities, but two years into his academic career he met Zellig S Harris, Who was a leader in the field of Structural Linguistics. Noam would later attend Harvard and become a Harvard Fellow. -
Contributions to Philosophy
While at Harvard, Noam would bring a lot of fresh and new ideas to the world of Linguistics. Noam argued that the learning of language (no matter what that language was) had a lot more to do with social cues and context than simply responding to stimulae, which was the wide spread belief at the time. Chomsky is one of the founders of Cognitive Science and is hailed as the father of modern Linguistics. And though his main studies are in Linguistics, he also deals with Politics, War, and others. -
Sources
McGilvray, James A. “Noam Chomsky.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 18 Oct. 2019, www.britannica.com/biography/Noam-Chomsky.