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Philosophical Haiku

Susan Stebbing (1885-1943)

by Terence Green

Perverse unreason:
W(h)ither our democracy
When our minds do sleep?

Susan Stebbing

Susan Stebbing was one of those rare philosophers who believe that philosophy should actually make a practical difference to people’s lives. She was also rare by virtue of being a female philosopher at a time when the rigours of rational thought were generally deemed by men too much for the fairer sex. Born in London in 1885, Stebbing came of age just as analytic philosophy was first tightening its logical grip on Britain’s thinkers. In 1920, she began lecturing at London’s women-only Bedford College.

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