ABSTRACT
Noam Chomsky became a psychologist out of necessity. He did not choose to become a psychologist; he did not train to become one. Noam Chomsky found his work in linguistics was making a psychologist out of him. Chomsky argues that the empirical tradition in psychology has prevented the development of a serious scientific attitude. People may acquire knowledge in more ways than behaviourists and learning theorists dream of. Chomsky, personally, is also interesting because science is not his only major interest. He remains torn between research and radical politics. Chomsky describes himself as 'schizophrenic': and he has been in that state for a long while. The natural approach any scientist would take we assume we have evidence this machine changes through time and that it interacts with its environment and that, in certain respects, it's acting differently from the way it did at the beginning.
