Gordon Park Baker
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Gordon Park BAKER (born at Englewood, New Jersey, 20 April 1938; died at Woodstock, Oxfordshire, 25 June 2002)
He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard University (major in mathematics), and, as a Marshall Scholar, at The Queen's College, Oxford, where he intended to read Philosophy, Politics, and Economics but transferred to Literae Humaniores (1960). He pursued his doctorate (1963-70) while teaching at the University of Kent and latterly as a Fellow of St John's College, Oxford.
His topics of interest included Ludwig Wittgenstein, Gottlob Frege, Friedrich Waismann, Bertrand Russell, the Vienna Circle, and René Descartes. He was noted for his collaboration with Peter Hacker and his disagreements with Michael Dummett.
He was a Trustee of the Waismann Fund.
His other interests included real tennis and the harpsichord.
He was married to Ann Pimlott (1964), with whom he had three sons, Alan, Geoffrey, and Nicholas. From 1992 until his death the philosopher Katherine Morris (Mansfield College, Oxford) was his acknowledged companion.
