Norman Kemp Smith
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Norman Kemp Smith
Kemp Smith, Norman (1872-1958) Scottish philosopher and translator. Kemp Smith was educated at St Andrews, where he was awarded a doctorate for his Studies in Cartesian philosophy of 1902. He held a post at Princeton from 1906 to 1916, before becoming Professor at Edinburgh in 1919. After his Commentary to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1918), he produced his definitive translation of the same work (1929). Although he also produced philosophy of his own, he is otherwise remembered especially for The Philosophy of David Hume (1941), a work which set the standard for all subsequent interpretations of Hume.
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Norman Kemp Smith
Norman Kemp Smith (1872–1958) was a Scottish philosopher who lectured at Princeton University and was Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh. Born Norman Smith in Dundee, Scotland, he added his wife's last name when he married Amy Kemp in 1910.[1] He is noted for his English translation of Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.
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Kemp Smith received his doctorate in 1902 from the University of St. Andrews. He lectured in philosophy and psychology at Princeton from 1906 to 1916, and at Edinburgh from 1919 until his retirement in 1945. He is best known for his English translation of Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, published in 1929 and often used as the standard English version of the text. His commentaries on the Critique are also well regarded, as are his works on David Hume and other philosophers. He was president of the Aristotelian Society from 1947 to 1948.
Books and articles
- Studies in the Cartesian Philosophy (New York: Macmillan, 1902)
- "The Naturalism of Hume (I)" and "The Naturalism of Hume (II)", Mind, 14 (1905) Nos. 54 and 55: 149–73 and 335–47
- "Subjectivism and Realism in Modern Philosophy", The Philosophical Review, 17 (1908) No. 2: 138–48
- "How Far Is Agreement Possible in Philosophy?", The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology, and Scientific Methods, 9 (1912) No. 26: 701–11
- "Kant’s Relation to Hume and Leibniz", The Philosophical Review, 24 (1915) No. 3: 288–96
- A Commentary to Kant’s 'Critique of Pure Reason' (London: Macmillan, 1918)
- Prolegomena to an Idealist Theory of Knowledge (London: Macmillan, 1924)
- The Philosophy of David Hume: A Critical Study of Its Origins and Central Doctrines (London: Macmillan, 1941)
- New Studies in the Philosophy of Descartes (1951)
Further reading
- Loeb, Louis E. (2009). What is Worth Preserving in the Kemp Smith Interpretation of Hume? British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 17(4), 769–797.
References
- ^ Norman Kemp Smith (1872-1958), University of Edinburgh Philosophy Department web site. Retrieved November 5, 2009.
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