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Milič Čapek

Milič Čapek
Born (1909-01-26)26 January 1909
Třebechovice, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary
Died 17 November 1997(1997-11-17) (aged 88)
Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
Era 20th-century philosophy
Region Western philosophy
School Process philosophy
Main interests
Metaphysics, Modern physics, Philosophy of space and time
Notable ideas
Process philosophy

Milič Čapek, (26 January 1909 – 17 November 1997) was a CzechAmerican philosopher. Čapek was strongly influenced by the process philosophy of Henri Bergson and to a lesser degree by Alfred North Whitehead. Much of his work was devoted to the relation of philosophy and modern physics, especially the philosophy of space and time and metaphysics.

Čapek was born in the municipality of Třebechovice in present-day Czech Republic (then part of Austria-Hungary).

He was married to Stephanie Čapek (born Štěpánka Řežábková), who was a school teacher in Czechoslovakia and later a housewife, and died on July 14, 1998 (aged 82), in Little Rock, Arkansas. Together they have a daughter, Dr. Stella M. Čapek from Conway, Arkansas.

In 1935 Čapek received his Ph.D. in philosophy at Charles University in Prague. Following the German occupation, he escaped from Czechoslovakia and studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, where he also directed Czech-language broadcasts back to his homeland. Ten days before the Nazi invasion, Čapek left Paris and went to America after an odyssey via Dakar, Casablanca and a Vichy concentration camp in Morocco. During the war he taught physics in the Army Specialized Training Program at the University of Iowa, the V-12 Navy College Training Program at Doan College, and at the University of Nebraska. After the war he returned to Czechoslovakia, where he taught briefly at the Palacký University of Olomouc. One month before the 1948 communist coup d'état he was fleeing once again, to take up permanent residence and citizenship in the United States.


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