noam chomsky studied philosophy
 in academia mcgilvray observes that chomsky inaugurated the cognitive revolution in linguistics and that he is largely responsible for establishing the field as a formal natural science moving it away from the procedural form of structural linguistics dominant during the mid20th century
 iraq war criticism and retirement from mit 20012017 chomsky was widely interviewed after the september 11 attacks in 2001 as the american public attempted to make sense of the attacks