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Jerry Fodor, 9 October 2003

Thinking without Words 
by José Luis Bermúdez.
Oxford, 225 pp., £25, May 2003, 0 19 515969 1
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... the best they’ve got is less a theory than a programme of research. That is the background for José LuisBermúdez’s book, so let’s start with it. This seems safe: Stanley must have done some thinking. He must have inferred, on the basis of his beliefs, memories, hunches (etc) about the situation in which he ...

‘I wouldn’t pay it either’

Simon Skinner: World Cup Wallcharts, 25 June 2026

The Power and the Glory: A New History of the World Cup 
by Jonathan Wilson.
Little Brown, 608 pp., £12.99, May, 978 0 349 14573 0
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... a final-whistle escape route to a ship moored in Montevideo harbour. The Argentina captain, Luis Monti, nearly didn’t play after a death threat and was a shadow of himself (Monti was ordinarily so brutal that a later manager wrote a letter of apology to an opponent). Uruguay won 4-2, and its embassy in Buenos Aires was attacked. It hadn’t taken long ...

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