L. Susan Stebbing

Posted on January 13, 2011January 13, 2011 by src1

I have just signed a contract with Palgrave Macmillan to write a book based on my current research project on the British analytic philosopher Susan Stebbing. Here is a very brief account of why I am interested in Stebbing.

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Tony Judge March 26, 20125:25 pm Reply

If you want biographical information. I have just finished writing a biography of Cyril Joad who was great friend of Stebbing, and I would happy to answer any questions arising from my research.
1. Tony Judge April 21, 20124:35 pm Reply
  
  Now published as:
  
  Radio Philosopher: The Radical Life of Cyril Joad
  ISBN 9781469957128
  Available from http://www.amazon.com
  1. src1 April 23, 201210:13 am
    
    Thanks for the update, Tony. I have ordered your book and I’m looking forward to reading it.
  2. Richard W. Symonds October 13, 201212:21 pm
    
    Dear Tony Judge
    
    I am now reading your book on Cyril Joad, and have some questions to ask if I may.
    
    I cannot find your email address, so I’m hoping you might read this request via Siobhan’s site here.
Richard W. Symonds May 12, 201210:22 pm Reply

Yes, I will also be ordering Tony Judge’s book – and will look forward to reading it :

http://poundhillnorthindependentcrawley.freeforums.org/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=214

It goes without saying, Siobhan, if you also want any information this end – just ask :

richardsy5@aol.com (preferred communication – I am very deaf)
1. src1 May 14, 20121:29 pm Reply
  
  Thanks for your comment, Richard. It seems from Tony’s book that Stebbing and Joad were near neighbours in London for a number of years, and that Joad sought her opinion on his work fairly often. I agree that the intellectual and personal relationship between the two is potentially interesting.
  1. Richard W. Symonds May 14, 20121:49 pm
    
    May I ask, Siobhan, if there are any references to Maud Matthews or Ellen Wilkinson in Tony’s book?
    
    Having problems getting this book at the moment.
    
    Thanks.
src1 May 15, 20129:38 am Reply

Both get brief mentions – Matthews as a friend Joad made fairly late in his life who subsequently ‘gave up her work as a schoolteacher to look after him until the end’ (p. 240) and Wilkinson as an MP who appeared on the Brains Trust and, during a discussion of doodling on the walls of telephone kiosks, ‘speaking in what seems a strangely affected accent to modern ears said that doodling took place in the House of Commons even by members of the government like Churchill and Attlee’ (p. 181).
1. Richard W. Symonds May 16, 201210:17 pm Reply
  
  Thanks for that Siobahn.
  
  I can’t help but wonder how instrumental Susan Stebbing was in securing Cyril Joad’s job at Birkbeck in 1930 (Head of Philosophy & Psychology) – they were close neighbours in Hampstead London NW3 – Squires Mount/Joad – Belsize Park/Stebbing.
  
  She clearly ‘made things happen’ (eg with Carnap & Popper)
  
  A remarkable woman.
  
  I look forward to your book.
praymont August 31, 201211:46 am Reply

I’ve been reading up on Joad’s life and posting some notes about it. It’s interesting to learn of Joad’s friendship with Stebbing. There’s a post about Stebbing at the New Apps blog that might be of interest to you. It’s at http://www.newappsblog.com/2012/07/susan-stebbing-the-history-of-metaphysics-at-the-dawn-of-analytic-philosophy.html
1. src1 September 3, 20121:44 pm Reply
  
  Thanks for your comment, and also for the link to the post on the New Apps blog. I found the post and the discussion that followed it very interesting.