Susan Stebbing

L. Susan Stebbing
Stebbing by Howard Coster (1939)
Born(1885-12-02)2 December 1885
North Finchley, Middlesex, England,
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Died11 September 1943(1943-09-11) (aged 57)
Northwood, Middlesex, England, UK
Alma materGirton College, Cambridge
Era20th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolAnalytic philosophy
Logical positivism
Main interests
Logic
Notable ideas
Ordinary language as adequately describing everyday experience[1]

Lizzie Susan Stebbing (2 December 1885 – 11 September 1943) was a British philosopher. She belonged to the 1930s generation of analytic philosophy, and was a founder in 1933 of the journal Analysis. Stebbing was the first woman to hold a philosophy chair in the United Kingdom, as well as the first female President of Humanists UK.

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