Czy neopragmatyzm jest transcendentalizmem? Rozważania na tle filozofii Richarda Rorty’ego i Roberta Brandoma

The subject of this paper is one of the central problems of philosophy, which isaptly stated by Hilary Putnam: “How does mind/language hook on to the world?”.This question presupposes a model of knowledge which may be called “the subject--object model of knowledge”. However, contemporary philosophers such as WilfridSellars, Hilary Putnam, Donald Davidson, Richard Rorty, John McDowell, JohnHaugeland and Robert Brandom criticize this traditional model of knowledge. I claimthat at least some versions of neopragmatism look at this problem implicitly assum-ing a transcendental point of view. This istranscendentalism without transcendentalstandpointand can be found in Marek Siemek’s works. This transcendentalismcan be considered in two ways. First, as a therapy – a standpoint that is characteristicof Rorty, who demonstrated that the subject-object model of knowledge is optionaland contingent. Second, as constructivism – this standpoint is represented by Bran-dom, who tries to show that this traditional model is not autonomus.