Lewis White Beck

Lewis White Beck (September 26, 1913 - June 7, 1997) was a scholar in German philosophy. 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, including the "Critique of Practical Reason", and was the author of "Studies in The Philosophy of Kant" (1965).

Biography

Beck was born in Griffin, GA on Sept. 26, 1913. He received his bachelor's degree from Emory University in 1934, his master's degree from Duke University in 1935, and his doctoral degree from Duke University in 1937.

Before moving to Rochester, he was a Fellow at the University of Berlin (1937-38), an instructor at Emory University (1938-41), assistant professor at the University of Delaware (1941-46), and associate professor at Lehigh University (1946-48), eventually becoming professor (1948-49).

He retired in 1979 and died at age 83 on June 7, 1997 in Rochester, New York.

elected publications

Books

* "Philosophic Inquiry: An Introduction to Philosophy" (1952)
* "A Commentary on Kant's Critique of Practical Reason" (1961)
* "Six secular Philosophers" (1966)
* "Early German Philosophy: Kant and his Predecessors" (1969)
* "The Actor and the Spectator" (1975)
* "Essays in Kant and Hume" (1978)

Translations

* Kant's "Critique of Practical Reason"
* Kant's "The Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals"

Links

* [http://www.rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=1330 "Philosopher, Scholar Lewis White Beck Dies"] - University of Rochester press release.