Men of Ideas
Season 1, Episode 11: The Ideas of Chomsky
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Linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology transformed the nature of linguistics before he was 40. In this program with world-renowned author and professor Bryan Magee, the outspoken Chomsky challenges accepted notions of the way in which language is learned, examines the relationship of language to experience, and discusses the philosophical nature of knowledge.
All Episodes - Season 1
Episode 1
An Introduction to Philosophy
Episode 2
Marxist Philosophy
Episode 3
Marcuse and the Frankfurt School
Episode 4
Martin Heidegger and Modern Existentialism
Episode 5
The Two Philosophies of Wittgenstein
Episode 6
Logical Positivism and its Legacy
Episode 7
The Spell of Linguistic Philosophy
Episode 8
Moral Philosophy
Episode 9
The Ideas of Quine
Episode 10
The Philosophy of Language
Episode 11
The Ideas of Chomsky
Episode 12
The Philosophy of Science
Episode 13
Philosophy and Politics
Episode 14
Philosophy and Literature
Episode 15
Philosophy: The Social Context