Susan Stebbing
British philosopher (1885–1943) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Lizzie Susan Stebbing (2 December 1885 – 11 September 1943) was a British philosopher. She belonged to the 1930s generation of analytic philosophy, and was a founder in 1933 of the journal Analysis. Stebbing was the first woman to hold a philosophy chair in the United Kingdom, as well as the first female President of Humanists UK.
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Born | (1885-12-02)2 December 1885 |
Died | 11 September 1943(1943-09-11) (aged 57) Northwood, Middlesex, England, UK |
Alma mater | Girton College, Cambridge |
Era | 20th-century philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Analytic philosophy Logical positivism |
Main interests | Logic |
Notable ideas | Ordinary language as adequately describing everyday experience[1] |
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