Robert Arrington

{{Short description|American philosopher}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2015}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Robert Arrington

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1938|10|19}}

| birth_place = Bainbridge, Georgia

| death_date = June 20, 2015

| education = Vanderbilt University (BA), Tulane University (MA, PhD)

| occupation = Philosopher

}}

Robert L. Arrington (October 19, 1938 – June 20, 2015) was an American philosopher, specialising in moral philosophy, the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, and the philosophy of psychology.

Arrington was born in Bainbridge, Georgia, and educated at Vanderbilt University (B.A. 1960, cum laude) and Tulane University (M.A. 1962 and Ph.D. 1966).

After three years as assistant professor at The University of Southern Mississippi (1963–1966), Arrington moved to Georgia State University, where he is professor emeritus of philosophy,{{Cite web |url=http://www.gsu.edu/files/Emeriti_Association_Members_-_As_of_August_2009%281%29.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=February 19, 2010 |archive-date=March 1, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120301210902/http://www.gsu.edu/files/Emeriti_Association_Members_-_As_of_August_2009(1).pdf |url-status=dead }} and director of Wittgenstein Studies.{{Cite web|url=http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-155786845X,descCd-authorInfo.html|title=A Companion to the Philosophers | Wiley}} He has held a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship (1960) and N.D.E.A. Title IV Fellowship (1960), and received a Griffin Award from the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology in 1968.{{Cite web|url=http://www.niu.edu/sspp/Griffith.html|title = HOME}}

He was an American Council of Learned Societies Research Fellow at the University of Oxford (1974–1975).