Abstracts
Abstract
Susan Stebbing (1885–1943), Great Britain’s first female professor of philosophy, was an educator, a logician, and a pioneer of public philosophy with a fondness for argumentation and evidential reasoning. Stebbing, whose revival has only recently begun, proposed an original theory of critical thinking and informal logic in the 1930s, which has not yet been taken account of in the history of the field. My paper aims to recognise Stebbing as a forerunner of informal logic during the period of 1930 to 1960. What makes Stebbing an exemplar in the field is her work on critical thinking, detecting logical fallacies, and evaluating arguments.
Keywords:
- critical thinking,
- informal logic,
- Susan Stebbing
Résumé
Susan Stebbing (1885-1943), première femme professeure de philosophie en Grande-Bretagne, était une pédagogue, une logicienne et une pionnière de la philosophie publique, passionnée par l'argumentation et le raisonnement fondé sur les preuves. Stebbing, dont la mémoire n'a été que récemment redécouverte, a proposé dans les années 1930 une théorie originale de la pensée critique et de la logique non formelle, jusqu'ici négligée dans l'histoire de la philosophie. Cet article vise à reconnaître en Stebbing une figure précurseur de la logique non formelle entre 1930 et 1960. Son travail sur la pensée critique, la détection des sophismes et l'évaluation des arguments fait d'elle une figure emblématique de la philosophie.
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