Thanks to Brian Weatherson, I discovered that Fodor's characteristically delightful demolition of one of Putnam's recent confused forays in to philosophy of mind is on-line. Can someone point me to an on-line version of Fodor's TLS (or was it also LRB?) dismembering of McDowell's 1994 Mind and World?
Many philosophers do good work in demolishing transparent nonsense, whether it is Martha Nussbaum on Judith Butler, or John Searle on Derrida. But surely the prize goes to Jerry Fodor for taking on the intellectually substantial targets--from Putnam to McDowell--and showing, repeatedly, that the emperor in fact has no clothes.
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