David Pears
Introduction __NOTOC__'''David Francis Pears''', FBA (8 August 1921 – 1 July 2009) was a British philosopher renowned for his work on Ludwig Wittgenstein.An Old Boy of Westminster School, 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 * ''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
Further reading * David Charles and William Child (Eds.). ''Wittgensteinian Themes: Essays in Honour of David Pears.'' Oxford: Oxford University Press 2002.
External links * "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.