Thinking About the “Common Reader:” Otto Neurath, L. Susan Stebbing and the (Modern) Picture-Text Style

Körber, Silke

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“…As the 1930s progressed, Stebbing felt increasingly horrified by the rise of fascism and Nazism. Stebbing supported Jewish colleagues in finding academic employment (Körber, 2019) and, with her friends and sister, took in Jewish refugee children at their school. Chapman (2013: 159) cites a letter from 1940, at which point more than fifty Jewish refugee pupils studied at the school.…”

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confidence: 93%

Susan Stebbing

Janssen-Lauret

2022

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Susan Stebbing (1885–1943), the UK's first female professor of philosophy, was a key figure in the development of analytic philosophy. Stebbing wrote the world's first accessible book on the new polyadic logic and its philosophy. She made major contributions to the philosophy of science, metaphysics, philosophical logic, critical thinking and applied philosophy. Nonetheless she has remained largely neglected by historians of analytic philosophy. This Element provides a thorough yet accessible overview of Stebbing's positive, original contributions, including her solution to the paradox of analysis, her account of the relation of sense data to physical objects, and her anti- idealist interpretation of the new Einsteinian physics. Stebbing's innovative work in these and other areas helped move analytic philosophy from its early phase to its middle period.

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Section: Critical Thinking and Politicsmentioning

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Susan Stebbing

Janssen-Lauret

2022

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“…Neurath to Carnap, 25 September, 1943, letter 22 (Cat andTuboly 2019, p. 584). On Neurath and Stebbing see Körber (2019); on Stebbing and logical empiricism in general see Chapman (2013, ch. 5).…”

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Knowledge Missemination: L. Susan Stebbing, C.E.M. Joad, and Philipp Frank on the Philosophy of the Physicists

Tuboly

2020

Perspectives on Science

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Science popularization might take different forms. In the early twentieth century, Sir James Jeans and Sir Arthur Eddington presented the most successful endeavors. Philosophers were highly unimpressed and disturbed by these popular works and various authors declared their disagreement with the physicists’ philosophical books against their own philosophical background. I will discuss three different philosophers, L. Susan Stebbing, C. E. M. Joad, and Philipp Frank, whose three lines of criticism represent three different forms of philosophy, social engagement, and scientific outlook. What is interesting is that there was a point when the most diverse philosophers (of science) agreed in contrast of their common enemy, namely, those popularizing scientists that have their reputation and use it to propagate false, or at least misleading views about science, culture, and values. What we shall see is how far this agreement went among these figures and how the divergent strategies culminated in very similar results regarding knowledge dissemination.

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“…[3] (pp. [36][37] Likewise present in all three is the concomitant sense that social and political transformation is fundamentally a matter of training the emotions and forming citizens possessed of robust democratic affect rather than of changing laws or reforming institutions. Just as Russell and Stebbing spoke of this, each in their own idiom, so Macmurray insisted that only through "proper training of the emotions" could persons properly orient themselves to the moral values that were the basis of reality [50] (p. 37).…”

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“…12 For some representative recent examples of work that elucidates Stebbing's thought and contextualizes it within the history of philosophy, see Beaney [32], West [33], West [34], Tuboly [35], and Janssen-Lauret [36]. Like Chapman's essential biography [14] of Stebbing, Körber [37] is an example of recent work that situates Stebbing in a broader cultural context and highlights her concern with issues that transcended the world of professional philosophy. 13 Stebbing's talents as an institution builder were evident in, for example, her development of Bedford College and its philosophy department, her efforts as a teacher at and proprietor of Kingsley Lodge School for Girls, and her role in founding both Analysis and Modern Quarterly.…”

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Reason, Emotion, and the Crisis of Democracy in British Philosophy of the 1930s

Sterenberg

2024

Philosophies

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This article examines how British philosophers of the 1930s grappled with the relationship between reason, emotion, and democratic citizenship in the context of a perceived “crisis of democracy” in Europe. Focusing especially on Bertrand Russell, Susan Stebbing, and John Macmurray, it argues that philosophers working from diverse philosophical perspectives shared a sense that the crisis of democracy was simultaneously a crisis of reason and one of emotion. They tended to frame this crisis in terms of three interrelated concerns: first, as a problem of balancing or integrating reason and emotion; second, as a problem of the relationship between emotions and democratic citizenship; and third, as a problem of how to properly train or educate the emotions. Significantly, British philosophers addressed these issues most directly in writings for a non-professional audience, as they sought to translate their professional expertise into popular works that might rejuvenate democratic citizenship. This historical episode is a reminder of how philosophers were deeply engaged in the cultural politics of the interwar period and is a telling example of how personalist concerns were central to philosophy even as the “analytic revolution” was gathering steam.

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Thinking About the “Common Reader:” Otto Neurath, L. Susan Stebbing and the (Modern) Picture-Text Style

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Knowledge Missemination: L. Susan Stebbing, C.E.M. Joad, and Philipp Frank on the Philosophy of the Physicists

Reason, Emotion, and the Crisis of Democracy in British Philosophy of the 1930s

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