1927年にロンドン大学の准教授の座に就き、ベッドフォード大学准教授の職と兼任した。1931年、博士号(Doctor of Letters)を取得。1933年には教授に昇進し、英国で哲学教授を務めた初の女性となった。当時としては衝撃的なできごとである [11]。1931年から1932年までコロンビア大学の客員教授も務めた[12]。1931年から1932年にはマインド・アソシエーション(英語版)会長、1933年から1934年にはアリストテレス協会の会長を務めている[12]。
ステビングの最もよく知られた著作は『Thinking to Some Purpose(有効なる思索[20])』(1939)である。この本の表紙には次のように書かれている。「明晰に考えるための必須マニュアル。他者の非論理的思考を見抜き、自身の論理的思考を磨くために」 [21]。一般によく引用されるのは下記の一節だが[22]、これは本文中の言葉ではなく1939年版のカバーおよび1952年版の前書きに登場するものである[23]。
^ abcWarnock, Mary (2004). "Stebbing, (Lizzie) Susan (1885–1943)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/36259. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^Willow, M.G. (1995) "L. Susan Stebbing (1885–1943)". In: Waithe M.E. (eds) A History of Women Philosophers, A History of Women Philosophers, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht
^Chapman, Siobhan (2013). Susan Stebbing and the language of common sense. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire. pp. 79. ISBN9780230302907. OCLC820434193. https://books.google.com/books?id=-CVjs5CYoloC&pg=PA79. "The appointment of the 'First Woman Professor of Philosophy' in Britain was reported in papers including the Morning Post, the Manchester Guardian, the Western Morning News and the Belfast Telegraph, and in periodicals including Nature and the Times Education Supplement. In its historical and cultural context, Stebbing's appointment as full Professor of Philosophy really was headline news. Women were by now an established presence, although certainly a minority one, in academia, but their place there was hard-won and still controversial."
^Wodehouse, Helen M.; Price, H. H.; Moore, George E.; Macmurray, John; Mace, C. A.; Jebb, G.; Broad, C. D. (July 1944). “L. S. Stebbing Memorial Fund” (英語). Philosophy19 (73): 191. doi:10.1017/S0031819100004897. ISSN1469-817X.
^An image of the passage in question, as it appeared in the 1941 printing can be found here. The 1952 printing, which did not carry these lines, can be inspected online at Internet Archive.
^Milkov, Nikolay (2003), Stadler, Friedrich, ed., “Susan Stebbing's Criticism of Wittgenstein's Tractatus” (英語), The Vienna Circle and Logical Empiricism: Re-Evaluation and Future Perspectives, Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook (Springer Netherlands) 10: pp. 351–363, doi:10.1007/0-306-48214-2_28, ISBN9780306482144, https://books.google.com/books?id=UEMOBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA3512019年10月5日閲覧, "in Susan Stebbing's paper "Logical Positivism and Analysis", which was read to the British Academy as a Henriette Hertz lecture on 22 March 1933 and published shortly afterwards as a separate book, a new enemy of Moore-Russellian realism was proclaimed. She was anxious to distinguish not merely between Cambridge Realists and British Idealists, but between the former and the Logical Positivists of the Vienna Circle. Stebbing was adamant in her insistence that the analysis practiced by the English realists was not to be confused with the "logical analysis" of the "Viennese Circle". But that was not all. This keen woman philosopher was the first author to see considerable differences between the philosophy of Moore-Russell – but above all Moore – on the one hand, and Wittgenstein's Tractatus on the other."
^Macdonald, M. (1945). “Men and Moral Principles. By L. Susan Stebbing. L. T. Hobhouse Memorial Trust Lecture No. 13. (Oxford University Press. 1944. Pp. 27. Price 2s.)” (英語). Philosophy20 (75): 76–78. doi:10.1017/S0031819100004976. ISSN1469-817X.