Noam Chomsky, Steven Pinker, Jay Keyser, Hilary Putnam at MIT - SHASS 50th Anniv. Colloquium 2000 

Chomsky, Pinker, and Putnam all at one event? I can't believe this actually happened. Thank goodness we have a recording.

I love how Pinker admits that he doesn't know when answering the question.

36:00 The father of computational theory can't even work the most basic tech... The mind truly is modular...

pinker using a laptop, putnam with the OHP (lol) and chomsky doesnt bother with props at all, love it.

I comment. Therefore I am.

Linguistics, Cognitive and behavioral Psychology. Thank you very much .

Great to see Noam and Putnam together. Ton of respect between them.

13:35 is when the first of the non-introducer speakers starts speaking.

Thank You

Great work

Sam and Noam’s friendship is fucking adorable

My brain is swooning🥰

This was updated by Brian Ferguson, who studied that the "savages" were not war like.

Pinker: *nods* Putnam: ????????????? Chomsky: *slowly nods*

"Well it's a dark subject." -H. Putnam

Professor Chomsky connects the language work with the political work: human nature, human rights.

"Conclusions about human nature are likely to have large-scale consequences." - Chomsky

Noam Chomsky is an excellent communicator,a truly great mind.

I wish Chomsky and Pinker would do a debate today.

Proves to be true even withstands fire

Brilliant thinkers. Pinker and Chomsky in particular. I do not always agree with them but they have always been inspiring and challenging.

I am a huge fan of Chomsky, Pinker, and Putnam. This is a great talk.

I must thank all professors who gave me an insight to the question and opened my mind to the broad field of studies in language.

Innate Ideas: 1:19:52

Noam Chomsky at MIT, OxiMoron.

Mentor who background so we know your foundation they'll follow ones go

1:30:54

1:34:00 -- "Who is my neighbour?"

Prove to be HIS NAME MEANS

Would be thoughtful as well as useful ! To put water on the table near by speakers !

Thanks a lot, I loved it Man is like the universe : very few answers, the rest is mystery. 2023: I wonder if it’s a good question for ChatGPT ?

Young pinker, same haircut lol

Each sentence Putnam utters, his enthusiasm gives me hope I'll understand what he's saying, but after each sentence that hope is lost. I feel I've got the gist, but that may be wishful thinking.

re Pinker: Any "what is the nature of..." question is semantic. Human nature is whatever we understand it to be, not some esoteric, a priori Platonic form. Nature as a whole is likewise defined by the boundaries we set upon it intentionally.

I take issue with the term Judeo/Christian tradition, as, it is only recognised in Britain/America and perhaps other parts of Europe and perhaps the satellite Western economies like Australia. I'm writing at a time when America appears to be reducing their military bases in the Middle East, thus this concept of Judeo/Christianity worries me more than it did in the past. For decades America has supported a brand of Jewish Zionism that envisages Jerusalem as the capital of the new, ostensibly, European/Jewish state. An undertaking that might see the end of Damascus and those surrounding cities that continue to support the Arab Nationalist secular momentum. Will Syria be at the mercy of an ideology that has sought to bring the Arab dominated parts of the Levant to its knees? After all the world hierarchy has withdrawn patronage form the Lebanon, under the pretext of the economic strife caused by the well constructed deadly virus myth. I don't deny there is a more serious flu around but we've lived through them before. The Levantine Christians, with the exception of a proportion of the Maronites, who might yet come to regret their affiliations, do not support the concept of Judeo/Christianity at all. Neither do a lot of Eastern European countries I realise this comment is not directly linked to the video content but someone has to question, once again the intent of a European, Jewish Zionist Movement that appears to be out of control.

Chomsky intelligence, knowledge, great thinking ability, character, honesty, integrity is beautiful to watch and I always learn a lot when he talks.

What's proof?

Chomsky does laugh! So nice!

The duty to oneself is not ethics, but it is morality. Ethics deals with your formalized interactions with others, even strangers. Morality is internal/immediate/local, in which sense your duty to yourself is to be your Best self, regardless of how it effects others, with the selfish understanding that only the best You can have the best life for you, and that the good of your immediate surroundings is directly related to your own. There is a selfish reason to do any good thing and a gregarious one to do any evil thing.

Do we live with none adapting ways of Imperialism🧐🌎?

History memory which one is real , second, first JFKMLKRFKillers, ask, their benfiCIAries ?

Do we live without any problems for material comfort then we bored and find independence for infinite ♾ needs 😏🤣.?

This comment section is one of the worst I’ve ever scrolled. Intelligent bitter trolls mixed with wannabe intellectuals word salad

Not a particularly enlightening discussion. I've hear Chomsky do that rap about wage slavery a hundred times, and when he began, I said aloud his next sentences before he did. Yeah, it has something vaguely to do with the point of studying human nature, but the whole talk was so vague and superficial that it gave the impression of yoking a veneer of science at the beginning to being relevant and radical at the end. Putnam had one interesting point to make, which is fine, but it wasn't articulated particularly clearly. Pinker was kind of all over the place. Also, he used the statistic of war dead distributed over time and population to compare to hunting-gathering victims of killing. But one needs to add to war dead all victims of homicide and manslaughter over the same period.

3 Ashkenazi Jews.

Putnam is the star here chomsky & pinker make no points are just talking abbot their opinions

🙏🏻, I believe in human beings living without harmful by nature or it’s rawness with the stimulation for having when the attacking family famine. I believe it’s the education can compromise the rudeness and moral reasoning when we learn to be in mature ways, but it’s the democratic warriors freedom members make it for the names for warriors attacking that’s no one deserves to live if’s it’s their advantage 🇺🇸.

Michel Foucault couldn't make it.

Keyser has nothing to say; he reads and he makes a few euphemisms in an attempt to endear himself to us. What's all the hubbub, bub? Long Live Senior House, say thousands of alums.

Pinker's arrogance knows no bounds. He matter-of-factly declares traditional religions to be obsolete. What wisdom he must possess to be able to intone such an idea.

For promising and warriors justify. Do we in luxury capital destruction on material needs 🧐? And sanctions against our life hunger for making 😊🙏🏻.

Putnam struggling with projector slides and making excuses is the most human thing I have seen today... Please, someone, make a channel only with Gods struggling with the technical setup - just to put some humanity in the Pantheon.

I prefer Pinker to Chomsky anyway because he has an attitude that aims more at improvement and harmony between people while Chomsky seeks more conflict.

Will you leave your head in destroying yourself of good styling for yourself celebrating and paying till you get yourself good ghost outsides? In your never mind your democratic attitude has never thought about your life and family prosperity 🤔?

ore like steven stinker!!!!!!

We Must follow our musical instinct!! Billions of us entrained with The One Groove broadcast by www.groovism.org will cause the foreseen epiphany!

the real question is how is a MAN named hilary.

Pinker says Judaeo-Christian like it designates anything, outside cheap newspapers' prose style...

The penitent hardhat parenthetically point because motion realistically warm after a special hourglass. woebegone, satisfying brian

Chomsky should to linguistics. Nothing he says is based on facts or analytical data. We are supposed to take everything he says as truth. Laughable and absurd…

Chomsky was and I assume still is a big supporter of Pol Pot

Be suspicious of a man who lays out a position with seeming care and earnestness and then says "I'm probably misinterpreting." Insincerity in life is bad. In intellectual matters it's poison gas.

Listening to Epstein buddies Pinker and Chomsky spout about morality is nauseating.