Maybe they read his wikipedia page, the third sentence of which is:
"Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science."
But that's just wikipedia, you say, so I looked at the (very "analytic philosophy") article on Philosophy of Linguistics in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Chomsky is mentioned by name 78 times.
"Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science."
But that's just wikipedia, you say, so I looked at the (very "analytic philosophy") article on Philosophy of Linguistics in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Chomsky is mentioned by name 78 times.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/linguistics/
A quick glance at just the titles of the 94 other articles on there mentioning Chomsky gives an idea of the range of his ideas/writing/influence:
https://plato.stanford.edu/search/searcher.py?query=noam+cho...