Name Lewis Beck | Role Philosopher | |
Died June 7, 1997, Rochester, New York, United States Education Duke University (1937), Emory University Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada Books Early German Philosophy, A commentary on Kant's, The actor and the spectator, Eighteenth‑century philosophy, Six secular philosophers | ||
Lewis White Beck (September 26, 1913 – June 7, 1997) was an American philosopher and scholar of 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).
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Born in Griffin, Georgia, Beck 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 was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1963.
He retired in 1979 and died at age 83 in Rochester, New York.