Susan Stebbing
L. Susan Stebbing | |
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Stebbing by Howard Coster (1939) | |
| Born | Lizzie Susan Stebbing 2 December 1885 North Finchley, Middlesex, England |
| Died | 11 September 1943 (aged 57) Northwood, Middlesex, England |
| Education | |
| Alma mater | Girton College, Cambridge |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic philosophy Logical positivism |
| Main interests | Logic |
| Notable ideas | Ordinary language as adequately describing everyday experience |
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.