A reader tells me that Fodor’s review of McDowell’s Mind and World is available in his collection In Critical Condition which is available via this MIT site, but for a fee. Here’s the concluding paragraph of the review:

“Ever since Descartes, a lot of the very best philosophers have thought

of science as an invading army from whose depredations safe havens have

somehow to be constructed. Philosophy patrols the borders, keeping the

sciences ‘intellectually respectable’ by keeping them ‘within … proper

bounds.’ But you have to look outside these bounds if what you care

about is the life of the spirit or the life of the mind. McDowell’s is as good

a contemporary representative of this kind of philosophical sensibility as

you could hope to find. But it’s all wrong headed. Science isn’t an enemy,

it’s just us. And our problem isn’t to make a place in the world for the

mind. The mind is already in the world; our problem is to understand it.”