Chomsky’s System of Ideas

This book is an examination of the philosophical and methodological ideas behind Noam Chomsky’s revolutionary theory of human linguistic competence–ideas which are increasingly influential in cognitive and perceptual psychology, and which can be seen as the basis for a distinctive view of the
human condition. D’Agostino discusses six key Chomsky’s ontological subjectivism with regard to linguistic entities, his individualistic methodological orientation, his rationalistic account of language acquisition, his rules-based account of linguistic behavior, his distinctive account of
human creativity, and the political relevance of his general theory of human nature.