Let's Read! Noam Chomsky, 1959, Review of B.F. Skinner's "Verbal Behavior"

0:00:00 - My introduction
0:10:03 - Section 1
0:22:41 - Section 2
0:42:41 - Section 3
1:17:06 - Section 4
1:34:37 - skip Sections 5-10, start at Section 11

Full text of the review at the official Noam Chomsky website (not run by him): https://chomsky.info/1967____/

Link to this re-printing of it: https://philpapers.org/rec/CHOARO-2
and the book it appeared in: https://www.degruyter.com/document/do...

The Wikipedia article about Noam Chomsky: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Ch...
Press release from 1992 about his citations: https://news.mit.edu/1992/citation-0415
More contemporary citation ranking, showing him at 34th: https://research.com/scientists-ranki...
Recent op-ed piece Chomsky wrote about ChatGPT: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/op...

More on Skinner's pigeon-guided missiles: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smiths...
The Wikipedia article about the book Verbal Behavior: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verbal_...
The Wikipedia article about Chomsky's book, Syntactic Structures, that came out around the same time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntact...

More on rationalism and empiricism: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ra...

A re-appraisal of Chomsky's review, 50 years later (by a Skinner sympathizer): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

More on Pavlov's dogs: https://www.simplypsychology.org/pavl...

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