David Francis Pears, FBA (8 August 1921 – 1 July 2009) was a British philosopher renowned for his work on Ludwig Wittgenstein.[1][2]
An Old Boy of Westminster School,[3] he was in the Royal Artillery during World War II, and was seriously injured in a practice gas attack. After leaving the army he studied classics at Balliol College, Oxford, and was then for many years a Student (Fellow) of Christ Church, Oxford.
Bibliography
edit- Ludwig Wittgenstein. Viking Press 1970.
- Motivated Irrationality. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1984.
- The False Prison: A Study of the Development of Wittgenstein's Philosophy. 2 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press 1987/1988.
- Hume's System: An Examination of the First Book of His Treatise. Oxford: Oxford University Press 1991.
- Paradox and Platitude in Wittgenstein's Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2006.
References
edit- ^ O'Grady, Jane (2 July 2009). "Obituary: David Pears". The Guardian.
- ^ "David Pears: Philosopher renowned for his work on Wittgenstein". The Independent. 9 July 2009.
- ^ David Pears: philosopher, (obituary) The Times, 3 July 2009, Archived from the original by Wayback Machine
Further reading
edit- David Charles and William Child (Eds.). Wittgensteinian Themes: Essays in Honour of David Pears. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2002.
External links
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- "Pears, David Francis (1921–2009), philosopher". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Archived by Wayback Machine).
- "David Francis Pears 1921–2009" - British Academy Memoir of Pears by Christopher Peacocke, FBA.
- "The Idea of Freedom" (1972) A philosophical conversation between Iris Murdoch and David Pears on ethics, freedom, determinism, and Freud, from the Logic Lane series of educational films by Michael Chanan.