This volume presents a collection of newly commissioned essays on the work of Susan Stebbing (18851943). Stebbing was an important figure in the development of analytic philosophy in the first half of the twentieth century, and a pioneer of the social utility of philosophy and of the application of logical analysis to critical inquiry into language use. The separate studies of Stebbings work included in this volume offer fresh perspectives across three broad topics: logic and Cambridge Analysis; idealism, realism and the philosophy of science; and public philosophy and social engagement. The volume brings together seven chapters by leading international scholars in the field, along with a contextualising introduction, in order to advance understanding of the importance, originality and continuing significance of Stebbings remarkable body of work.
Susan Stebbing on Logic and nalysis is essential reading for all scholars, researchers and advanced students of the history of analytic philosophy and the philosophy of science. It is also ideal for scholars interested in public philosophy.
Introduction.- Part I.- Logic and Cambridge Analysis.-2. Helpful
Criticisms.- A Modern Introduction to Logic and Stebbings Correspondence
with Moore.-3. Stebbing and Reid on Common Sense.-Part II.-Idealism, Realism
and the Philosophy of Science.-4. Directional Analysis in Susan Stebbings
Philosophy of Physics Frederique Janssen-Lauret.-5. Stebbing on Science and
Abstraction Andreas Vrahimis and Demetris Portides.-6. Stebbing and
Idealism Peter West.-Part III.-Public Philosophy and Social Engagement.-7.
The Ordinary Man Who Happens also to Have a Great Deal of Scientific
Knowledge.- Susan Stebbings Philosophy of Physicists.-8. Thinking Clearly
for a Modern Democracy: Susan Stebbing and Otto Neurath.
Siobhan Chapman is Professor of English at the University of Liverpool. Her research interests are in the areas of the philosophy of language, particularly the history of analytic philosophy, and pragmatics, particularly Gricean and neo-Gricean pragmatic theories and their application to literary stylistics.
