Susan Stebbing
Analysis, Common Sense, and Public Philosophy
Will be published approx. on 22. October 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
296 pages
978-0-19-768234-0 (ISBN)
Description
Susan Stebbing: Analysis, Common Sense, and Public Philosophyis the first edited volume to be dedicated exclusively to the philosophy of Susan Stebbing (1885-1943)-a pivotal yet neglected figure in the male-dominated tradition of analytic philosophy, and the first woman to hold a Chair in Philosophy in Britain. This volume collects eleven new essays that explore central themes of Stebbing's philosophy: the significance of her work on metaphysical analysis; her contributions to public philosophy, including her work in the philosophy of physics, critical thinking, ethics, and counter-propaganda efforts; and her work in philosophical logic and the philosophy of language. The volume and its contributors seek both to reinstate Stebbing's place in the analytic tradition by examining her work in context and to highlight the continued relevance of her ideas to contemporary philosophy.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
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Height: 226 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
408 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-768234-0 (9780197682340)
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Persons
Annalisa Coliva Chancellor's Professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of California Irvine. She has been named Inclusive Excellence Professor (2022-2024), DECADE Mentor (2023-2024), and Inclusive Excellence Mentor in the Department of Philosophy (2022-2025). She also serves as Co-director of the Minor in Medical Humanities. Previously she was Chair of the Department of Philosophy (2017-2022), Chancellor Fellow (2019-2022), DECADE Mentor for the School of Humanities (2022-2023), and Director of the Graduate Emphasis in Medical Humanities (2022-2023). She is the editor in chief of the Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy. Her research focuses on epistemology, philosophy of mind, and the history of analytic philosophy
Louis Doulas is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Extending New Narratives in the History of Philosophy project at McGill University. His research is both historical and theoretical, focusing on the history of early analytic philosophy and issues in epistemology and methodology. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of California, Irvine.
Louis Doulas is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Extending New Narratives in the History of Philosophy project at McGill University. His research is both historical and theoretical, focusing on the history of early analytic philosophy and issues in epistemology and methodology. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of California, Irvine.
Content
Annalisa Coliva and Louis Doulas: Introduction: Susan Stebbing: Analysis, Common Sense, and Public Philosophy
Section I. The Significance of Susan Stebbing's Work on Analysis
Annalisa Coliva: The Significance of Susan Stebbing's Work on Analysis
Eric Schliesser: Stebbing on Clarity
Section II. Public Philosophy, Science, and Common Sense
Frederique Janssen-Lauret: Susan Stebbing's Anti-Idealist Philosophy of Physics: Her Rebuttal of Eddington's Argument from Intrinsic Nature
Louis Doulas: Making Sense of Stebbing and Moore on Common Sense
Karl Egerton: Susan Stebbing's Critique of Popular Science: Guiding or Gatekeeping?
Peter West: Stebbing's Pelicans: Public Philosophy in Philosophy and the Physicists and Thinking to Some Purpose
Section III. The Logic and Politics of Everyday Language
Nikolay Milkov: Susan Stebbing and Some Poorly Explored Venues of Analytic Philosophy
David Dunning: Susan Stebbing and the Politics of Symbolic Logic
Section IV. Natural Language, Definitions, and Verbal Disputes
Siobhan Chapman: Susan Stebbing: Philosophy, Pragmatics, and Critical Discourse Analysis
Bryan Pickel: Stebbing on Linguistic Convention: Understanding, Definition, and Verbal Disputes
Teresa Kouri Kissel: Stebbing, Translations, and Verbal Disputes
Section I. The Significance of Susan Stebbing's Work on Analysis
Annalisa Coliva: The Significance of Susan Stebbing's Work on Analysis
Eric Schliesser: Stebbing on Clarity
Section II. Public Philosophy, Science, and Common Sense
Frederique Janssen-Lauret: Susan Stebbing's Anti-Idealist Philosophy of Physics: Her Rebuttal of Eddington's Argument from Intrinsic Nature
Louis Doulas: Making Sense of Stebbing and Moore on Common Sense
Karl Egerton: Susan Stebbing's Critique of Popular Science: Guiding or Gatekeeping?
Peter West: Stebbing's Pelicans: Public Philosophy in Philosophy and the Physicists and Thinking to Some Purpose
Section III. The Logic and Politics of Everyday Language
Nikolay Milkov: Susan Stebbing and Some Poorly Explored Venues of Analytic Philosophy
David Dunning: Susan Stebbing and the Politics of Symbolic Logic
Section IV. Natural Language, Definitions, and Verbal Disputes
Siobhan Chapman: Susan Stebbing: Philosophy, Pragmatics, and Critical Discourse Analysis
Bryan Pickel: Stebbing on Linguistic Convention: Understanding, Definition, and Verbal Disputes
Teresa Kouri Kissel: Stebbing, Translations, and Verbal Disputes