Titlebook: Susan Stebbing and the Language of Common Sense; Siobhan Chapman Book 2013 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited

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Science, Logic and Language,e between 1921 and 1943. There seems to have been an almost constant exchange of letters and memos between Bedford College and Kingsley Lodge, and within the college itself, between Stebbing and Miss Olive E. Monkhouse, the College Secretary. These mainly concern the mundane business of university l

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A Wider Audience,ect matter and in tone, but they are both aimed at a reading audience beyond the confines of academia. Meanwhile, much of her everyday working life was taken up with the responsibilities of running a university department. Departmental papers show her involved in making decisions and overseeing appo

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Logic and Ideals,The effect this would have on her own personal circumstances was unclear; ‘I don’t know where I am likely to be sent when war comes’ she wrote to Ursula Roberts.. In the event, Bedford College was evacuated to Cambridge, where rooms for teaching and accommodation were borrowed from or shared with Ne

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Stebbing, Philosophy and Linguistics, time, or her importance in the eyes of her contemporaries, and her significance as it seems in hindsight, in the light of subsequent developments in philosophy and elsewhere. Both are legitimate perspectives on her work, but they will not necessarily coincide. Richard Rorty has defended the practic

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Stebbing, Philosophy and Linguistics,e of allowing more recent trends to influence our assessment of historical figures. ‘There is nothing wrong with self-consciously letting our own philosophical views dictate terms in which to describe the dead’, he argues, ‘But there are reasons for also describing them in other terms, their own terms’.

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