# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lewis-white-beck
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:39:16.373Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/lewis-white-beck"
name: "Lewis White Beck"
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description: "Lewis White Beck 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)."
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birthDate: "1913-09-26"
deathDate: "1997-06-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump