doc. Mgr. Jakub Čapek, Ph.D.

• E-mail: jakub.capek@ff.cuni.cz
• Phone: (+420) 221619329

Address

Department of Arts and Religious Studies
Místnost č. 222

Office Hours

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Areas of Specialization

• 20th century German and French philosophy with a special focus on phenomenology, hermeneutics, philosophy of action and philosophy of perception.

Curriculum vitae

Education and Qualification

• 2010: Associate Professor in Philosophy (in Czech and German system: Dozent)
• 2001: Ph. D. in Philosophy (Université Paris-X Nanterre and Charles University, Prague)
• 1997: MA in Philosophy (Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague)
• 1996: MA in History (Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague)

Studies and Scholarships Abroad

• IX 2015 – VI 2016: Fulbright-Masaryk Visiting Scholar, Phenomenology Research Center, SIU Carbondale.
• V – VI 2011: research in the Marc Bloch Center, Berlin (Research scholarship of DAAD)
• III – V 2006: research in EHESS Paris (Research scholarship of the Mellon Foundation)
• X 1998 – V 2001: University of Lille and Paris-X Nanterre (Doctorat en cotutelle, Scholarship of the French Government)
• IX 1994 – VI 1995: University of Vienna (Scholarship of ÖAD)

Work Experience

• 2012 – 2015, and 2018-2020: director of the Institute of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague
• from 2010 Associate  Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Religious Studies
• III – VI 2005 Guest Professor in Freiburg in Breisgau (Germany), two courses in German on Phenomenology and Action Theory
• from 2001 Assistant Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Religious studies

Publications

Books and Edited Volumes

• (journal volume ed. by J. Čapek and Sophie Loidolt), Phenomenology and Personal Identity, Vol. 2/2021 of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, Springer.
• (ed. by O. Švec and J. Čapek), Pragmatic Perspectives in Phenomenology, New York: Routledge 2017.
• Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Myslet podle vnímání  [Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Thinking According to Perception], Prague 2012, ISBN 978-80-7007-379-7, 360 p. See Summary in English.
• Action et situation : Le sens du possible entre phénoménologie et herméneutique. Hildesheim – Zürich – New York : Olms, 2010. ISBN 978-3-487-14485-6, 252 p.
• Le temps dans la décision – la décision dans le temps (le problème de la décision chez Bergson, Heidegger, Sartre et Ricoeur), Lille: ANRT, 2001. ISBN 2-284-04984-2.

 Articles

• Entscheidung im Schatten der Identität. Phänomenologie des Entscheidens und Hermeneutik der Selbstauslegung bei Paul Ricœur, in: Burkhard Liebsch (ed.), Grundfragen hermeneutischer Anthropologie. Paul Ricœurs Werk im historischen Kontext: Existenz, Interpretation, Praxis, Geschichte, Karl Alber Verlag, Baden-Baden 2024, Band III, 1615-1642.
• La vie se dit en plusieurs sens. Questions autour de Renaud Barbaras, in: A. Dufourcq, K. Novotný (eds.), Surpuissance et finitude Renaud Barbaras aux limites de la phénoménologie, Vrin, Paris 2023, 121-134, ISBN: 978-2-7116-3134-6.
• Sharing and Exposure: Merleau-Ponty and The Cartesian Meditations, in: D. De Santis (ed.), Edmund Husserl’s Cartesian Meditations: Commentary, Interpretations, Discussions, Karl Alber Verlag, Baden-Baden 2023, 281-302, ISBN 978-3-495-99554-9.
• Freedom of Will and Freedom from Will: Personal Autonomy in Paul Ricoeur, in: P. Furia, D. Kusá, M. C. Vendra (eds.), The Challenges of Autonomy and Autonomy as a Challenge, Kritika & Kontext, Bratislava 2022, 21-37, ISBN 978-80-972340-8-9.
• Mit Fink am Tisch. Zu Eugen Finks Philosophie der Sozialität, in: Phainomena. Journal of Phenomenology and Hermeneutics, 2022, 31(122-123), 171-186. ISSN  1318-3362.
• Existence and Negativity. The Relevance of the Patočka-Bergson Controversy over Nothingness, in: Revue de la philosophie française et de langue française. 2021, 29 (1-2), 27-47. ISSN 2155-1162.
• Jakub Čapek & Sophie Loidolt, Phenomenological approaches to personal identity, in: Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 2021/2, s. 407-416.
• Philosophy and Theology: What Happens When We Cross the Boundary?, in: Martin Koci, Jason Alvis (Eds.): Transforming the Theological Turn: Phenomenology with Emmanuel Falque, Rowman and Littlefield, 2020, pp. 41-50.
• with T. Matějčková, Intersubjectivity and Sociality, in: The Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, ed. Daniele de Santis, Burt C. Hopkins and Claudio Mojolino, London – New York: Routledge, 2021, 259–270.
• Motivation et normativité : Réflexions sur le concept de liberté à partir de Merleau-Ponty, in: Bulletin d’analyse phénoménologique, 16 (2020), pp. 138-155.
• Renaud Barbaras and the Multiple Meaning of “Life”, in: Horizon. Studies in Phenomenology, 8(2), 2019, pp. 30-45.
• Intersubjectivity and Self-awareness in Husserl and Patočka, in: The Journal of Speculative Philosophy 33(3), 2019, pp. 512-526, 2019.
• Personal Identity and the Otherness of One’s Own Body, in: Continental Philosophy Review, September 2019, Volume 52, Issue 3, pp. 265–277.
• Ravaisson and Ricoeur on Habit, in: Scott Davidson (ed.), A Companion to Ricoeur’s Freedom and Nature (Studies in the Thought of Paul Ricoeur), Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield 2018, 37-58.
• Can Emotions Be Directly Moral? Reflections on the recent book by Anthony Steinbock, in: The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, Vol. 16, 2018, Routledge, New York 2018, ISBN 9781138601369, pp. 248-257 (in Spanish: ¿Pueden ser las emociones directamente morales? Observaciones sobre el último libro de Anthony Steinbock, in: Acta Mexicana de Fenomenología, Vol. 3, Abril 2018, ISSN: 2448-8941, 141-153.
• Habit and Freedom in Merleau-Ponty and Ricœur, in: Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 2017, ISSN 0891-625X, Vol. 31, N. 3, pp. 432-443, doi: 10.5325/jspecphil.31.3.0432.
• Narrative identity and phenomenology, in: Continental Philosophy Review, 2017, ISSN 1387-2842, Vol. 50, N. 3, pp. 359-375, doi:10.1007/s11007-016-9381-5.
• Oneself through Another: Ricœur and Patočka on Husserl’s Fifth Cartesian Meditation, in: Meta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, and Practical Philosophy, 2017, Vol. IX, No. 2, 387-415.
• Experience beyond Storytelling: László Tengelyi on the Narrative Identity Debate, in: AUC Interpretationes. Studia Philosophica Europeanea, 2015/2, ISSN 1804-624X, p. 95-113.
• with Ondřej Švec: Introduction to the special section of the “Chiasmi International” 15/2013 (co-editing the section Merleau-Ponty – Patočka: un rendez-vous manqué).
• Merleau-Ponty on Actions, Reasons and Words, in: P. Sajda (ed.), Affectivity, Agency and Intersubjectivity, Budapest: L’Harmattan 2012, p. 125 – 137, ISBN: 978-963-236-587-9.
• Bergson und Husserl über Erlebnis und Zeitlichkeit. In: Frank Degler (Hg.), Bloch-Almanach 30/2011. Philosophien der Zeitlichkeit. Teil 1, Talheimer Verlag, Mössingen-Talheim 2011, p. 127 – 143, ISBN: 978-3-89376-144-9.
• Percevoir c’est sentir. Merleau-Ponty et Herder. In: Thinking in Dialogue with Humanities. Paths into the Phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty, ed. by K. Novotný et al., Zeta Books 2010, p. 43-58.
• Le devoir de l’homme envers lui-meme : Patočka, Kant et la Charte 77, Revue Tumultes, 32-33, Editions Kimé, Paris 2009, p. 351-370.
• Explanation and Understanding: Action as “Historical Structure”; In: Philosophia. Philosophical Quarterly of Israel. 2008, 36, N. 4, p. 453-463.
• Handlung: gelebter statt metaphysischer Dualismus, in : Das Leib-Seele-Problem und die Phänomenologie, ed. par Cathrin Nielsen, Michael Steinmann, Frank Töpfer, Würzburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-8260-3708-5, p. 184-195.
• Zum Praxisbegriff. Die Aristotelische Handlungsanalyse und ihre heutige Relevanz, In: Internationales Jahrbuch für Hermeneutik, Tübingen 2006, 5, p. 225-247, ISSN 1619-7569.
• La double finalité de l’action, In: Philosophie de l’action, ed. par Švec, O., Michali, C, Cluj 2005, ISBN 973-7913-43-4, p. 97-113.
• Les apories de la liberté bergsonienne, in: Annales bergsoniennes II, vyd. Frédéric Worms, Paris, PUF 2004, p. 149 – 159

 Organization of Conferences:

• Post-Identity: International Workshop. Prague, 1st September 2021.
• Phenomenology and Personal Identity II, Prague, 8-9 November 2019
• Phenomenology and Personal Identity, Prague, 28-30 November 2018
• Idem – Ipse Distinction Revisited, Prague, June 8 2018
• Issues in Personal Identity, Prague, 10-11 November 2016
• Merleau-Ponty et Jan Patocka. Un rendez-vous manqué, Prague, 15 and 16 Mai 2012, http://mp.ff.cuni.cz/conference/
• Die hermeneutische Idee des Erkennens. Sache und Interesse, Prague, 24 and 25 November 2008, http://hermeneutik.ff.cuni.cz/
• Action. Université d’été du reseau OFFRES, 7 – 15 June 2004 ; http://www.cfb.cuni.cz/action/
• Bergson et la phénoménologie, Prague, 31 October – 2 November 2002

Teaching