Lewis White Beck Quotes on Knowledge
Lewis White Beck was an American philosopher and the most influential English-language Kant scholar of his generation. This page collects quotes attributed to Lewis White Beck on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Lewis White Beck:
“Kant's critique of pure reason is the critique of metaphysics, not its dismissal.”
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“Whatever plausibility the machine theory has- and it has much plausibility and is a rich model for psychology and neurology- it gains by being associated with a self-exemption clause.”
Lewis White Beck , The Actor and the Spectator - book reviewed by Mary Midgley in The Philosophical Quarterly", Vol. 27, Issue 107, April 1977 p. 185-186 (1975) , p. 25 -
“Lewis White Beck , The Actor and the Spectator - book reviewed by Mary Midgley in The Philosophical Quarterly", Vol. 27, Issue 107, April 1977 p. 185-186 (1975) , p. 25”
Whatever plausibility the machine theory has- and it has much plausibility and is a rich model for psychology and neurology- it gains by being associated with a self-exemption clause. -
“If you believe that you are not a machine , but that I am (then) I do not know why you are reading this book".”
Lewis White Beck , The Actor and the Spectator - book reviewed by Mary Midgley in The Philosophical Quarterly", Vol. 27, Issue 107, April 1977 p. 185-186 (1975) , p. 29 -
“Lewis White Beck , The Actor and the Spectator - book reviewed by Mary Midgley in The Philosophical Quarterly", Vol. 27, Issue 107, April 1977 p. 185-186 (1975) , p. 29”
If you believe that you are not a machine , but that I am (then) I do not know why you are reading this book". -
“But somewhat like people who object to spending money needed in the ghettoes on exploring the moon, I think the best hope for our survival is to be based on understanding human predicaments here on earth, not expecting a saving message from super-human beings in the sky...Thinking about and even hoping to find extraterrestrial civilizations, however, sharpen our search for and appreciation of the peculiar virtues and vices of the only form of life we know.”
Lewis White Beck , "Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life" in Extraterrestrials Science and Alien Intelligence ( Regis Jr., Edward. Ed., 1985) , Part V, p. 14