Thinking to Some Purpose

by L. Susan Stebbing

A manual of first-aid to clear thinking, showing how to detect illogicalities in other people's mental processes and how to avoid them in our own."

"There is an urgent need to-day for the citizens of a democracy to think well.... It is not enough to have freedom of the Press and parliamentary institutions. Our difficulties are due partly to our own stupidity, partly to the exploitation of that stupidity, and partly to our own prejudices and personal desires." —Stebbing

186 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 10, 2021

About the author

L. (Lizzie) Susan Stebbing was a British philosopher of the 1930s generation of analytic philosophy.

Works
* Pragmatism and French Voluntarism (1914)
* A Modern Introduction to Logic (1930)
* Logical Positivism and Analysis (1933)
* Logic in Practice (1934)
* Imagination and Thinking (1936) with C. Day Lewis
* Thinking to Some Purpose (1939)
* Philosophy and the Physicists (1937)
* Ideals and Illusions (1941)
* A Modern Elementary Logic (1943)

Many works are out of print and copyright and are therefore available on many free e-book sites, such as: http://www.archive.org/