George Pitcher (philosopher)

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George Pitcher (May 19, 1925 - January 12, 2018) was an American philosopher. He was a professor of philosophy at Princeton University from 1956 to 1982.

He was an expert on George Berkeley and Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Early life and education

George Willard Pitcher was born in West Orange, New Jersey.

He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1947. After graduating, he served for three years on ships in the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, and the Caribbean. While Pitcher was a graduate student at Harvard University, he was recalled to active duty during the Korean War, after which he returned to Harvard, earning his PhD in 1957. His PhD thesis was titled Illocutionary acts: an analysis of language in terms of human acts.

Career

He joined the Department of Philosophy at Princeton University in 1956 as a faculty member. He taught there until his retirement in 1982.

He received a Guggenheim fellowship in 1965-66 and was a member of the American Philosophical Association.

He taught there until his retirement in 1982. He continued to publish papers for several years as an emeritus professor.

Personal life

Composer and fellow Princeton professor Edward T. Cone was Pitcher’s companion for almost 50 years, until Cone's death in 2004.

From 1992 until his death, Pitcher was a trustee of the Edward T. Cone Foundation.

Free invitation

Publications

Books

• The Philosophy of Wittgenstein (Prentice-Hall, 1964)
• Theory of Perception (Princeton University Press, 1971)
• A Life of Grace: The Biography of Grace Lansing Lambert (Princeton University Press, 1987)
• The Dogs Who Came to Stay (Penguin Publishing Group, 1996)

Essays

• The Misfortunes of the Dead, American Philosophical Quarterly 21/2 (1984): 183-188.

Editor

• Truth (Contemporary Perspectives in Philosophy Series (Prentice Hall, 1964)
• Ryle; a Collection of Critical Essays with Oscar P. Wood (Macmillan, 1970)
• Wittgenstein: The Philosophical Investigations (University of Notre Dame Press, 1974)
• Berkeley: The Arguments of the Philosophers (Berkeley, 1977)

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