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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...
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The Philosopher Queens: The lives and legacies of philosophy's unsung women
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