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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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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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.
By: Tony Judge on March 26, 2012
at 5:25 pm
Now published as:
Radio Philosopher: The Radical Life of Cyril Joad
ISBN 9781469957128
Available from http://www.amazon.com
By: Tony Judge on April 21, 2012
at 4:35 pm
Thanks for the update, Tony. I have ordered your book and I’m looking forward to reading it.
By: src1 on April 23, 2012
at 10:13 am
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.
By: Richard W. Symonds on October 13, 2012
at 12:21 pm
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)
By: Richard W. Symonds on May 12, 2012
at 10:22 pm
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.
By: src1 on May 14, 2012
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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.
By: Richard W. Symonds on May 14, 2012
at 1:49 pm
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).
By: src1 on May 15, 2012
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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.
By: Richard W. Symonds on May 16, 2012
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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
By: praymont on August 31, 2012
at 11:46 am
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.
By: src1 on September 3, 2012
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