Thomson, "What is the will?" in Pears 1963

by JLS
for the GC

In "Reply to Richards", Grice mentions joint work in the philosophy of action with interesting philosopher J. F. Thomson. Thomson, originally of Christ Church, like Pears, left Oxford early enough and settled in MIT.

THE JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY, BOOK REVIEW Freedom and the Will. by W Wartofsky - 1964
Edited by D. F. PEARS. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1963. 137 p.

"On the first question, J. F. Thomson suggests, in the discussion "What Is the Will? ... cludes that considerations of freedom of the will have "often been ...

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