Chomsky Notebook

Jean Bricmont is a theoretical physicist and professor at the Catholic University of Louvain. He has helped to make the political writings of Noam Chomsky known in France after years of blackout. He is the coauthor, with Alan Sokal, of Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science.Julie Franck is assistant professor at the Laboratory of Experimental Psycholinguistics, University of Geneva. Her research concerns syntax in adults and children.

Part I. Chomsky 1. The Mysteries of Nature: How Deeply Hidden?, by Noam Chomsky 2. The Great Soul of Power: Said Memorial Lecture, by Noam Chomsky Part II. Introductions 3. Chomsky, France, Reason, Power, by Jean Bricmont and Julie Franck 4. An Interview with Noam Chomsky, by Jean Bricmont Part III. Linguistic Theory and Language Processes 5. The Varying Aims of Linguistic Theory, by Cedric Boeckx and Norbert Hornstein 6. Language, Thought, and Reality After Chomsky, by Gennaro Chierchia 7. Generative Syntax in the Brain, by Yosef Grodzinsky Part IV. Cognitive Science and the Philosophy of Mind 8. Learning Organs, by Charles R. Gallistel 9. Innateness, Choice, and Language, by Elizabeth Spelke 10. The Scope and Limits of Chomsky's Naturalism, by Pierre Jacob Part V. Chomsky and the Intelligentsia 11. Conspiracy: When Journalists (and Their Favorites) Misrepresent the Critical Analysis of the Media, by Serge Halimi and Arnaud Rindel 12. Noam Chomsky and the University, by Pierre Guerlain 13. The Practice of Intellectual Self-Defense in the University, by Normand Baillargeon 14. Chomsky, Faurisson, and Vidal-Naquet, by Jean Bricmont 15. Chomsky and Bourdieu: A Missed Encounter, by Frederic Delorca Part VI. Politics: Theory and Practice 16. Chomsky in France: The Resistance to Pragmatic Anti-Authoritarianism, by Larry Portis 17. Testimony, by Susan George 18. Truth, Balance, and Freedom, by Akeel Bilgrami List of Contributors