Rudolph Krejci
Rudolph (Rudy) Krejci | |
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| Born | Rudolf Krejčí March 4, 1929 Hrušky, Czechoslovakia |
| Died | December 9, 2018 (aged 89) Fairbanks, Alaska, USA |
| Nationality | Czechoslovak-American |
| Notable work | The "Three Worlds" Idea; "Anticipatory Intelligence Study"; Problem of Consciousness. Ideas and Linguistic Proxies; the "Nature of Eureka and Creativity", Comparative studies East-West philosophy Dissolution of the Realism/Antirealism problem |
| Languages | Czech, German, French, English, Russian, Latin, Old Church Slavonic |
| Time | 20th-century philosophy |
| Regions | Western and Eastern Philosophy |
| Schools | Analytic Philosophy, Phenomenology (philosophy) |
| Fields | Philosophy and History of Philosophy of social science |
| Influences | Pre-Socratic philosophy, Xenophanes, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Ockham, Hume, Comte, T.G. Masaryk, Karl Popper, Wittgenstein, Pitirim Sorokin, Goedel, and Vienna Circle, Einstein Copenhagen School, Husserl |
| Family Life | Married in 1959 to Helene Wachtler in Innsbruck, Austria; has four children, Sonja, Eric, Anita and Paul. |
Rudolph Krejci (Czech: Rudolf Václav Krejčí; 4 March 1929 - 9 December 2018) was a Czechoslovak-American philosopher and professor, who was the founder of the Philosophy and Humanities Programs at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and founder and first dean of the university's College of Arts and Sciences in 1975. In 1997, after 37 years at the university, Krejci became Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Humanities.