Lewis White Beck
Lewis White Beck | |
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University of Rochester, circa 1970s | |
| Born | September 26, 1913 |
| Died | June 7, 1997 (aged 83) Rochester, New York |
| Awards | American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellowship American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship Guggenheim Fellow Rosenwald Fund Fellowship |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | Western philosophy |
| Region | German idealism |
| Main interests | Immanuel Kant Moral philosophy |
Lewis White Beck (September 26, 1913 – June 7, 1997) was an American philosopher and scholar of German philosophy specializing in German idealism at the University of Rochester. As Chairman of the Department of Philosophy, he achieved international recognition for encouraging collaborative research by scholars within the United States and Germany into the philosophy of Immanuel Kant during the post World War II era. Beck also translated several of Kant's works from German, including the Critique of Practical Reason, and authored Studies in the Philosophy of Kant (1965).