Noam Chomsky: Review of Skinner's Verbal Behavior 2

A Review of B. F. Skinner’s Verbal Behavior - Part 2Chomsky, N., 1959. “Review of Verbal Behavior,” Language, 35: 26–58.Text available free online: https://chomsky.info/1967____/In Leon A. Jakobovits and Murray S. Miron (eds.), Readings in the Psychology of Language, Prentice-Hall, 1967, pp. 142-143.In this early influential review, Chomsky put a serious dent into Skinner’s “radical behaviorism”, from which it never fully recovered. We get an early glimpse of Chomsky’s views on language, science and human nature.