Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog

News and views about philosophy, the academic profession, academic freedom, intellectual culture, and other topics. The world’s most popular philosophy blog, since 2003.

  1. Structural realism's avatar
  2. Siddharth Muthukrishnan's avatar
  3. V. Alan White's avatar
  4. jason Yackee's avatar
  5. a bit off topic's avatar
  6. s. wallerstein's avatar
  7. David Wallace's avatar

Jerry Fodor is great

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.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Designed with WordPress