TY - BOOK AU - Winston, Morton Emanuel. TI - On Chomsky SN - 9780534576400 AV - P 85.C47 .W733 2002 PY - 2002/// CY - Belmont, CA PB - Wadsworth/Thomson Learning KW - Linguistics KW - Political science N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 92-93) N2 - 2. his groundbreaking books on syntax which laid a conceptual foundation for a new , cognitivist approach to linguistics and provided philosophers with a new framework for thinking about human language and the mind: 3.persistence defense of his views against all takers engaging in important debates with many major figures in analytic philosophy throughout his career; Influenced greatly analytic philosophers due to: 1. substatial contributions to a major methodological shift in the human sciences, turning away from the prevailing empiricism of the middle of the twentieth century: behaviorism in psychology, structuralism in linguistics, and positivism in philosophy ER -