Education
He subsequently attended officer candidate school and was commissioned as a second lieutenant, transferring to the military police. Balmuth then attended Amherst College on the G.I. Bill.
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Career
Balmuth developed his interest in philosophy after high school, when he enrolled in a philosophy night course at the City College of New New York In 1944 he joined the United States Army and was assigned to a Signal Corps unit In 1948 he was discharged at the rank of first lieutenant.
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.
In 1954, Balmuth joined the faculty at Colgate, where he commenced a 50+ year teaching career. Balmuth specialized in Wittgenstein"s philosophy and influence, history of philosophy, religion, aesthetics, (symbolic and advanced), philosophy of law, philosophy of logic, meta-ethics and their connection with the philosophy of language.
The Jerome Balmuth Endowed Fund, established in 2000, provides annual support to attract visiting lecturers on philosophy to Colgate. The Jerome Balmuth Scholarship Fund, established in 2004, provides academic awards with a preference for a philosophy major.
In 2009, Colgate established the Jerome Balmuth Award for Teaching and Student-Faculty Engagement.
