David Pears

For the rugby union player, see David Pears (rugby union).

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

• 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.