H. P. Grice and D. F. Pears, The Collaborations

Pears, D. F. Bedfont-born philosopher of language and mind, Professor of Philosophy at University of Oxford. Pears’s subtle and stimulating works on Hume, Russell, and Wittgenstein contributed to the development of his own naturalistic empiricism. His accounts of action, personal identity, self-deception, weakness of will, solipsism, and rule-following have all been widely influential. His major works include Questions in the Philosophy of Mind (1975), Motivated Irrationality (1984), and The False Prison: A Study of the Development of Wittgenstein’s Philosophy, 2 vols. (1987–8).