Susan Stebbing on Cambridge and Vienna Analysis

Abstract

Susan Stebbing (1885-1943) was one of the key figures in what became known in the 1930s as the Cambridge School of Analysis, and was at the center of the debate about the relationship between the Cambridge School and the Vienna Circle, which formed the two main traditions of analytic philosophy in the 1930s. More than anyone else at the time, she was concerned to elucidate the conceptions of analysis involved in these two traditions; and the aim of this paper is to compare and assess these conceptions by examining Stebbing's work.