This episode is part of The Psychology Podcast’s “Best of Series”, where we highlight some of the most exciting, enthralling, and enlightening episodes from our archives.
Today it’s great to have the legendary Noam Chomsky on the podcast. Noam is a public intellectual, linguist, and political activist. He’s the author of many influential books, including Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, and his latest book with Robert Pollin called Climate Crisis and The Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving The Planet. Chomsky is also known for helping to initiate and sustain the cognitive revolution. He’s the Laureate Professor of Linguistics at The University of Arizona and Institute Professor Emeritus at MIT.
Website: https://chomsky.info/
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Topics
- The cognitive revolution of the ‘50s and ‘60s
- Noam’s first encounter with behaviorism
- Being part of the cognitive revolution
- Implicit learning and artificial grammar
- Modern-day behavioral genetics
- Noam’s thoughts on intelligence
- Noam’s take on creativity
- Chomsky’s vs. Foucault’s view
- Noam’s thoughts on modern-day social justice movements
- Identity vs. human nature
- Racism and slavery in American consciousness
- Why Noam thinks Trump is the worst criminal in human history
- The complexities of the slogan “defund the police”
- Noam reflects on his life regrets
- Chomsky’s life advice