Baker 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. 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.
Alan is currently a professor of philosophy at
Swarthmore College. From 1992 until Gordon Baker's death the philosopher Katherine Morris (
Mansfield College, Oxford) was his acknowledged companion. ==Bibliography==