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“This book was first published in 1936 and has long been out of print. It was finally republished this year. Susan Stebbing was a very brilliant, hardcore, analytic philosopher, logician, and philosopher of science. She was amazing in that she was a respected contributor to philosophy in the 1930s, when academic philosophy was almost completely inimical to women in Britain. Probably because she died during the wartime, her reputation was affected by not being part of that post-war recovery in society, and she got forgotten.” Read more...
The Best Philosophy Books of 2022
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How to Say No: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Cynicism
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Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
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Free: Coming of Age at the End of History
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