What Kind of Creatures Are We? Audiobook (Free)

Noam Chomsky is well known and deeply admired for being the founder of contemporary linguistics, among the founders of the field of cognitive science, and perhaps the most avidly go through political theorist and commentator of our period. In these lectures, he presents a lifetime of philosophical reflection on all three of the areas of analysis to which he offers contributed for over half of a century.

In very clear, precise, and non-technical language, Chomsky elaborates on fifty years of medical development in what Sort of Creatures Are We? in the study of language, sketching how his very own work provides implications for the origins of language, the close relationships that language bears to idea, and its eventual biological basis. He expounds and criticizes a variety of theories, such as for example those that emphasize the social, the communicative, as well as the referential areas of vocabulary. Chomsky review articles how fresh discoveries about vocabulary overcome what seemed to be extremely problematic assumptions before. He also investigates the obvious scope and limits of human cognitive capacities and what the human mind can seriously investigate, in the light of history of technology and philosophical representation and current understanding. Shifting from language and mind to society and politics, he concludes using a looking exploration and philosophical defense of a posture he details as ‘libertarian socialism,’ tracing its links to anarchism as well as the concepts of John Dewey, as well as briefly to the tips of Marx and Mill, demonstrating its conceptual growth out of our historical past and urgent relation to matters of the present.