Jerry Balmuth
American philosopher
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Jerome "Jerry" Balmuth was an American philosopher and the Harry Emerson Fosdick Professor of Philosophy and Religion, Emeritus, at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York. Early life Balmuth developed his interest in philosophy after high school, when he enrolled in a philosophy night course at the City College of New York. In 1944 he joined the United States Army and was assigned to a Signal Corps unit. He subsequently attended officer candidate school and was commissioned as a second lieutenant, transferring to the military police. In 1948 he was discharged at the rank of first lieutenant. Balmuth then attended Amherst College on the G.I. Bill. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude from Amherst, Balmuth entered graduate school at Cornell University, where he held a Sage Fellowship, and later, a Danforth Fellowship.
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