Susan Stebbing
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December 2, 1885 North Finchley, Middlesex |
| Died | September 11, 1943 (aged 57) Northwood, Middlesex |
| Alma mater | Girton College, Cambridge |
| Era | 20th century |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic philosophy |
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Logic Logical positivism |
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L. (Lizzie) Susan Stebbing (December 2, 1885 – September 11, 1943) was a British philosopher. She belonged to the 1930s generation of analytic philosophy, and was a founder in 1933 of the journal Analysis.
Born in North Finchley, Middlesex, she was the youngest of six children born to Alfred Charles Stebbing and Elizabeth (nee Elstob), and was orphaned at an early age. She was educated privately until she went to Girton College, Cambridge to study history, which she graduated from in 1907. However, after coming across F.H. Bradley's Appearance and Reality she became interested in philosophy and she stayed on to take part I Moral Sciences in 1908. This was followed by a London MA in philosophy in 1912.
From 1911 to 1924 she held a number of teaching appointments. She was lecturer in philosophy at King's College, London, from 1913 to 1915, when she became part-time lecturer in philosophy at Bedford College, London; this was made a full-time position in 1920. She also held visiting lectureships at Westfield College, London (1912–20), Girton College, Cambridge (1911–14), and Homerton Training College, Cambridge (1911–14). From 1915 until her death she was principal of the Kingsley Lodge School for Girls, Hampstead.
In 1927 the London University title of reader in philosophy was conferred upon her and held in conjunction with her position at Bedford College. From 1920 she taught at Bedford College, University of London, where she became a reader in 1924. She gained a DLitt in 1931 and was promoted to professor in 1933, the first woman to hold a philosophy chair in the United Kingdom. She was also a visiting professor at Columbia University from 1931 to 1932. She was president of the Mind Association from 1931 to 1932 and the Aristotelian Society from 1933 to 1934.
Stebbing was a pupil of William Ernest Johnson; according to John Wisdom she was most influenced by G. E. Moore, and was a point of contact with the Vienna Circle, first inviting Rudolf Carnap to talk in the UK.
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