Norman Kemp Smith [SEP] occupation
Norman Kemp Smith
Norman Duncan Kemp Smith FRSE (5 May 1872 – 3 September 1958) was a Scottish philosopher who was Professor of Psychology (1906–1914) and Philosophy (1914–1919) at Princeton University and was Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh (1919–1945).
He is noted for his 1929 English translation of Immanuel Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason".
The Kemp Smith Room in the University of Edinburgh's Philosophy Department is named in his honour.
Early life and education.
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.
External links.
- Profile of Kemp Smith on the Edinburgh University Philosophy Department site
- Online edition of Kemp Smith's translation of the "Critique of Pure Reason"
- Norman Kemp Smith (1872-1958) hosted by "The Hume Society", selected from Geoffrey Gorham, "Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy" (