Abstract

[The Perils of Naturalism] The paper attempts a simultaneous assessment of both Rorty's philosophy, and some of its recent interpretations by Czech philosophers. Four of such interpretations are assessed and challenged: Rorty as, in turn, an idealist, a subjectivist, an eliminative materialist, and a non-metaphysical realist and naturalist. According to the author, Rorty should be, rather than is, a non-metaphysical realist, but he vacillates, due to his renunciation of representationalist conceptual apparatus, between transcendentalism idealism, on the one hand, and eliminative materialism, on the other. According to the author, Rorty's wholesale rejection of representationalist notions is not well substantiated.