doc. Jakub Čapek, Ph.D.

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 again from 2018: 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

Areas of Specialization

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

Publications

Books

• (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

• Jakub Čapek & Sophie Loidolt, Phenomenological approaches to personal identity, in: Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 2021.
• 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.
• 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:

• 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

Theses Supervision

• B.A. theses
• M.A. theses
• Ph.D. theses