Will be forever beholden to his work on language and grammar. Made it bearable to sit through a pointless CompSci class.
The Chomsky hierarchy is still taught in computer science. That’s as much as I know of Chomsky. I don’t know anything about his philosophy or natural language contributions
Very sad to see our mortality as we watch Chomsky slip away. Let’s celebrate his life and his accomplishments - our eventual deterioration and demise is all a part of our grand story of life. He’s done amazing things with his time here and we’d all be lucky to have 95 great years like that.
Such a towering figure in the field of linguistics, politics and philosophy of psychology. Especially his linguistics work was something I found personally extremely engaging as a student. Reading his review of B.F. Skinner’s book was a highlight of my philosophy of psychology class.
I know he has been active since the turn of the century but his influence was definitely more of a 20th century phenomenon. Not many academics reach the level of popular awareness that he did.
For you yongsters out there, Chomsky vs Skinner was the original Kendrick Lamar vs Drake.
