11 Facts About Susan Stebbing

Susan Stebbing belonged to the 1930s generation of analytic philosophy, and was a founder in 1933 of the journal Analysis.

Susan Stebbing was educated at James Allen's Girls' School, Dulwich, until she went, in 1904, to Girton College, Cambridge, to read history.

Susan Stebbing 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 and in 1924 she was appointed as a Reader there.

Susan Stebbing held visiting lectureships at Westfield College, London, Girton College, Cambridge, and Homerton College, Cambridge.

Susan Stebbing was promoted to professor in 1933, thus becoming the first woman to hold a philosophy chair in the United Kingdom, an event that was, as Siobhan Chapman notes, "headline news".

Susan Stebbing was a visiting professor at Columbia University from 1931 to 1932.

Susan Stebbing was president of the Mind Association from 1931 to 1932 and the Aristotelian Society from 1933 to 1934.

Susan Stebbing died, following the return of a cancer, on 11 September 1943 at Mount Vernon Hospital, in Northwood, Middlesex.

Essays in Memory of L Susan Stebbing, was published in 1948 on behalf of the Aristotelian Society.

Susan Stebbing assuredly selected her targets with a refined academic glee, as, for example, in her Philosophy and the Physicists.

Susan Stebbing's whole being brings into relief the difference between logic bent upon truth, and aesthetics bent upon beauty.