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The English philosopher L. Susan Stebbing was born December 2, 1885, the youngest of six children of barrister Alfred Charles Stebbing and Elizabeth Elstob in Wimbledon, near London. Since both her parents had died by the time she was sixteen, Stebbing was raised primarily by a guardian. As a child Stebbing suffered from an illness and was not expected to live. Her health continued to be a problem and as a consequence her education was discontinuous until 1906 when she went to Girton College, Cambridge.
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John Wisdom, “L. Susan Stebbing, 1885-1943,” Mind, NS 53 (1944), 283-285; rpt. “An Appreciation by J. Wisdom,” in Philosophical Studies; Essays in Memory of L. Susan Stebbing (London: Allen & Unwin, 1948), pp. 1–4.
Margaret Macdonald, “Stebbing (Lizzie) Susan,” DNB (1959).
Wisdom, p. 2; G. C. Nerlich, “Stebbing, Lizzie Susan,” The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 1967 ed., Vol. 8, pp. 11–12.
P. Magg, “Homage to Susan Stebbing,” The Personalist, 27 (1946), 165–72.
Nerlich, p. 12.
L. Susan Stebbing, Ideals and Illusions (London: Watts & Co., 1941; rpt. Thinker’s Library, 1948), p. 218; hereafter cited as I&I..
Wisdom, p. 2.
L. Susan Stebbing, Pragmatism and French Voluntarism; With Especial Reference to the Notion of Truth in the Development of French Philosophy from Maine de Biran to Professor Bergson, Girton College Studies, No. 6 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1914); hereafter cited in text as PFV.
L. Susan Stebbing, A Modern Introduction to Logic, 2nd ed. (1930; rpt. London: Methuen & Co., 1961); hereafter cited as MIL.
Philosophy, 6 (1931), 110–111.
The Philosophical Review, 42 (1933), 431–2.
C. A. Mace, Mind, NS 40 (1931), 354–64.
The papers include: Joseph, “A Defence of Freethinking in Logistics,” NS 41 (1932), 424–40; Stebbing, “Mr. Joseph’s Defence of Free Thinking in Logistics,“NS 42 (1933), 338-51; Joseph,”A Defence of Free-Thinking in Logistics Resumed,” NS 42 (1933), 417-443; Stebbing, “A Second Reply to Mr. Joseph,” NS 43 (1934), 156-169; Joseph, “A Last Plea for Free-Thinking in Logistics,” NS 43 (1934), 315–320.
Ralph Eaton, General Logic, An Introductory Survey (New York: Chas. Scribner's Sons: 1931). Eaton reviewed Stebbing’s book in Journal of Philosophy, 28 (1931), 607–610.
First printed in the Personalist (1931); reprinted as Chapter V in Must Philosophers Disagree? (London: Macmillan & Co., 1934); hereafter cited as MPD.
L. Susan Stebbing, Logic in Practice, Methuen’s Monographs on Philosophy and Psychology, ed. G. C. Field, 3rd edition (London: Methuen & Co., 1948); hereafter cited as LIP.
Philosophy, 9 (1934), 487–8.
Imagination and Thinking, Life and Leisure Pamphlets, No. 4 (London: British Institute of Adult Education, 1936), 14; hereafter cited as I&T.
L. Susan Stebbing, Thinking to Some Purpose (Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1939, rpt. 1948); hereafter cited as TSP.
L. Susan Stebbing, A Modern Elementary Logic (London: Methuen & Co., 1943).
L. Susan Stebbing, Philosophy and the Physicists (London: Methuen & Co., 1937); hereafter cited as P&P.
Sir James Jeans, The Mysterious Universe, 1930; quote taken from P&P, p. 9.
Arthur Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World, 1928, as quoted in P&P, p. 48.
In his review of the book, C. D. Broad says of this section “that Miss Stebbing here confines herself to’warming the teapot,’ but that she does this with such virtuosity that we are encouraged to hope for another book in which she will make delicious tea.” Philosophy, 13 (1938), 221-6.
In his review of the book, C. D. Broad says of this section “that Miss Stebbing here confines herself to’warming the teapot,’ but that she does this with such virtuosity that we are encouraged to hope for another book in which she will make delicious tea.” Philosophy, 13 (1938), 221-6.
G. A. Paul, Mind, NS 47 (1938), 361–76.
Nerlich, p. 12.
L. Susan Stebbing, Ideals and Illusions, Thinker’s Library, No. 119 (London: Watts & Co., 1948); hereafter cited as I&I.
John Laird, Mind, NS 51 (1942), 194–5.
John Laird, “Reflections Occasioned by Ideals and Illusions,” in Philosophical Studies; Essays in Memory of L. Susan Stebbing (London: Allen & Unwin, 1948), pp. 20–30; hereafter cited as PS.
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Willow, M.G. (1995). L. Susan Stebbing (1885–1943). In: Waithe, M.E. (eds) A History of Women Philosophers. A History of Women Philosophers, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1114-0_6
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