Susan Stebbing on Logic and Analysis

Herausgegeben:Chapman, Siobhan

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume presents a collection of newly commissioned essays on the work of Susan Stebbing (1885 1943). Stebbing was an important figure in the development of analytic philosophy in the first half of the twentieth century, and a pioneer of the social utility of philosophy and of the application of logical analysis to critical inquiry into language use. The separate studies of Stebbing s work included in this volume offer fresh perspectives across three broad topics: logic and Cambridge Analysis; idealism, realism and the philosophy of science; and public philosophy and social engagement. The volume brings together seven chapters by leading international scholars in the field, along with a contextualising introduction, in order to advance understanding of the importance, originality and continuing significance of Stebbing s remarkable body of work.
Susan Stebbing on Logic and nalysis is essential reading for all scholars, researchers and advanced students of the history of analytic philosophy and the philosophy of science. It is also ideal for scholars interested in public philosophy.

Produktdetails

• Philosophers in Depth
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer Nature Switzerland / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 89221198, 978-3-032-04640-6
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm
• ISBN-13: 9783032046406
• ISBN-10: 3032046408
• Artikelnr.: 75033037

Autorenporträt

Siobhan Chapman is Professor of English at the University of Liverpool. Her research interests are in the areas of the philosophy of language, particularly the history of analytic philosophy, and pragmatics, particularly Gricean and neo-Gricean pragmatic theories and their application to literary stylistics.  

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction.- Section 1.-Logic and Cambridge Analysis.- 1. -Stebbing and Ancient Greek Philosophy.- 2.- Stebbing and Common Sense.- 3.- Susan Stebbing, Alice Ambrose and Modern Logic.-Section 2.-Idealism, Realism and the Philosophy of Science.- 4.- Logical form and analysis in Susan Stebbing s Philosophy of Physics.- 5. -Stebbing on Science and Abstraction.- 6. -Stebbing s Case(s) Against Idealism.- Section 3.-Public Philosophy and Social Engagement.- 7. - The Ordinary Man Who Happens also to Have a Great Deal of Scientific Knowledge .- Susan Stebbing s Philosophy of Physicists.- 8.- Thinking Clearly for a Modern Democracy.-Susan Stebbing and Otto Neurath.- 9.- Susan Stebbing, Public Philosophy, and the Epistemology of Ignorance.