Lewis White Beck | |
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| 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 |
| 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. Beck was Burbank Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy at the University of Rochester and served as the Philosophy Department chair there from 1949 to 1966. He translated several of Immanuel Kant's works, such as the Critique of Practical Reason, and was the author of Studies in the Philosophy of Kant (1965).