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Capek, Milic was born on January 26, 1909 in Trebechovice, Czechoslovakia. Son of Josef and Elizabeth (Sebesta) Capek. came to the United States, 1941.
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At last his students and colleagues, his friends and his friendly critics, his fellow-scientist and fellow-philosophers, have the works of Milic Capek before them in one volume, aside from his books of course. Now the development of his interests and his thoughts, always led centrally by his concern to understand 'the philosophical impact of contemporary physics', becomes clear. In the nearly 90 essays and papers, and in his book on the philosophical impact as well as his classical restatement of process philosophy in his Bergson and Modern Physics, Professor Capek establishes one of the fundamental alternatives to the comprehension of human experience, and thereby of the world. Capek is certainly to be seen with respect and admiration, for he has dealt with the deepest and toughest of scientific as well as metaphysical problems: his major efforts in the philosophy of mind focussed upon the time of experience, and in the philosophy of physics focussed upon continuity, causality and again the temporal, now in the world-picture.
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(At last his students and colleagues, his friends and his ...)
At last his students and colleagues, his friends and his friendly critics, his fellow-scientist and fellow-philosophers, have the works of Milic Capek before them in one volume, aside from his books of course. Now the development of his interests and his thoughts, always led centrally by his concern to understand 'the philosophical impact of contemporary physics', becomes clear. In the nearly 90 essays and papers, and in his book on the philosophical impact as well as his classical restatement of process philosophy in his Bergson and Modern Physics, Professor Capek establishes one of the fundamental alternatives to the comprehension of human experience, and thereby of the world. Capek is certainly to be seen with respect and admiration, for he has dealt with the deepest and toughest of scientific as well as metaphysical problems: his major efforts in the philosophy of mind focussed upon the time of experience, and in the philosophy of physics focussed upon continuity, causality and again the temporal, now in the world-picture.
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Milic Capek has devoted his scholarship to the history and philosophy of modern physics. With impeccable care, he has mastered the epistemologi cal and scientific developments by working through the papers, treatises, correspondence of physicists since Kant, and likewise he has put his learning and critical skill into the related philosophical literature. Coming from his original scientific career with a philosophy doctorate from the Charles University in Prague, Capek has ranged beyond a narrowly defined philosophy of physics into general epistemology of the natural sciences and to the full historical evolution of these matters. He has ex pounded his views on these matters in a number of articles and, systema tically, in his book The Philosophical Impact of Contemporary PhYSiCS, published in 1961 and reprinted with two new appendices in 1969. His particular gift for many of his readers and students lies in the great period from the mid-nineteenth century through the foundations of the physics and philosophy of the twentieth, and within this spectacular time, Profes sor Capek has become a principal expositor and sympathetic critic of the philosophy of Henri Bergson. He joins a distinguished group of scholars -physicists and philosophers -who have been stimulated to some of their most profound and imaginative thought by Bergson's metaphysical and psychological work: Cassirer, Meyerson, de Broglie, Metz, Jankelevitch, Zawirski, and in recent years, Costa de Beauregard, Watanabe, Blanche, and others.
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Capek, Milic was born on January 26, 1909 in Trebechovice, Czechoslovakia. Son of Josef and Elizabeth (Sebesta) Capek. came to the United States, 1941.
Master of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy, King Charles University, Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1935. Master of Science, King Charles University, Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1936. Postgraduate, Sorbonne University, Paris, 1940.
Postgraduate, University Chicago, 1941. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Carleton College, 1983.
Instructor army specialized training program University Iowa, Iowa City, 1943-1944. Instructor Navy program Doane College, Crete, Nebraska, 1944. Instructor University Nebraska, Lincoln, 1944-1946.
Lecturer physics University Palacky, Olomoul, Czechoslovakia, 1946-1948. From assistant to professor Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, 1948-1962. Professor philosophy Boston University, 1962-1974, professor emeritus, since 1974.
Adjunct professor Center for Science and Culture, University Delaware, Newark, 1983-1995. Distinguished visiting professor University California, Davis, 1968-1969, Carleton College, 1971, North Texas State University, Denton, 1978. Visiting professor Yale University, 1975, Graduate Institute, Emory University, Atlanta, 1976.
Senior research associate Center Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University, 1975-1995. Section chairman 7th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Salzburg, Austria, 1983. Chairman section First Conference of International Society for Study Time, Oberwolfach, Federal Republic of Germany, 1969.
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(At last his students and colleagues, his friends and his ...)
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Member Czechoslovak Society Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Association, South Carolina Peirce Society, Metaphys. Society of America.
Married Stephanie Rezabek, June 24, 1947. 1 child, Stella Milica Capek.