Avram Noam Chomsky (/ˈnoʊm ˈtʃɒmski/; born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, logician, social critic, and political activist. Sometimes described as "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy, and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He has spent more than half a century at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he is Institute Professor Emeritus, and is the author of over 100 books on topics such as linguistics, war, politics, and mass media. Ideologically, he aligns with anarcho-syndicalism and libertarian socialism.Bio from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Photo by https://www.flickr.com/photos/culturaargentina [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons.See more on the author's page Follow Nirmalangshu MukherjiBrief content visible, double tap to read full content.Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.Nirmalangshu Mukherji has just retired from Professorship of Philosophy at Delhi University. He started out aiming to become a philosopher of science, drifted into epistemology, moved on to classical philosophy of language, became drawn to cognitive science, and somehow ended up looking at biolinguistics, nature of musical organization, and the general properties of the human mind. The effort led to dozens of papers and two books: "Cartesian Mind" (IIAS, 2000) and "Primacy of Grammar" (MIT, 2010). He also co-edited Noam Chomsky's "Architecture of Language" (OUP, 2000). An exte... See more
Avram Noam Chomsky (/ˈnoʊm ˈtʃɒmski/; born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, logician, social critic, and political activist. Sometimes described as "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy, and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He has spent more than half a century at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he is Institute Professor Emeritus, and is the author of over 100 books on topics such as linguistics, war, politics, and mass media. Ideologically, he aligns with anarcho-syndicalism and libertarian socialism.Bio from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Photo by https://www.flickr.com/photos/culturaargentina [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons.See more on the author's page Follow Nirmalangshu MukherjiBrief content visible, double tap to read full content.Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.Nirmalangshu Mukherji has just retired from Professorship of Philosophy at Delhi University. He started out aiming to become a philosopher of science, drifted into epistemology, moved on to classical philosophy of language, became drawn to cognitive science, and somehow ended up looking at biolinguistics, nature of musical organization, and the general properties of the human mind. The effort led to dozens of papers and two books: "Cartesian Mind" (IIAS, 2000) and "Primacy of Grammar" (MIT, 2010). He also co-edited Noam Chomsky's "Architecture of Language" (OUP, 2000). An extensively revised edition of "Cartesian Mind" (2000) will be published soon by Bloomsbury.Mukherji is also professionally interested on general questions of life, including the character of philosophical practice. There is no conscious attempt, but sometimes these two apparently disjoint interests seem to merge. He has published many articles in the area mostly in reputed anthologies. Some of these pieces are now collected in "Reflections on Human Inquiry: Science, Philosophy, Common Life" (Springer 2017)There is also a third, more recent interest: to do something about peace, justice, human rights. He writes regularly for a variety of political forums such as Znet, Outlook, Economic and Political Weekly. He has published "Terror Over Democracy" (2005) earlier. His most recent publication in this category is "Maoists in India: Tribals Under Siege" (2012). There is little academic philosophy in these political writings, but Mukherji thinks that he couldn't have written them without lifelong engagement with philosophy. Most of his articles and summary of books may be read at https://nirmalang
