Arrington was born in Bainbridge, Georgia, and educated at Vanderbilt University (B.A.
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,[1] and director of Wittgenstein Studies.
[2] 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.
[3] He was an American Council of Learned Societies Research Fellow at the University of Oxford (1974–1975).