Norman Kemp Smith

Background

Kemp Smith, Norman was born on May 5, 1872 in Dundee.

Education

St Andrews University.

Career

Assistant to E. Caird and then to Robert Adamson at Glasgow, 1894-1906. Professor of Philosophy, Princeton, 1906-1916. Professor of Logic and Metaphysics, Edinburgh, 1919-1945.

Views

Kemp Smith was without doubt the most distinguished philosophical historian of philosophy in Britain in the twentieth century. Descartes, Kant and Hume were the successive objects of his close and penetrating observation. In the case of Kant he supplemented his commentary with a translation of the Critique of Pure Reason better than any that had been made before. His account

Interests

• History of philosophy. Epistemology.

• Philosophers & Thinkers

  Robert Adamson and Samuel Alexander.