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In this re-appraisal of  Philosophy and the Physicists , I want to challenge C. D. Broad’s account of what Stebbing accomplishes (in his own review of the text from 1938) and show that, alongside a thorough (and sometimes scathing) critique of Eddington’s philosophical-scientific writing, the text in fact offers valuable insights into both Stebbing’s own philosophy of science and her wider views on philosophical analysis. More specifically, I will argue that in  Philosophy and the Physicists , Stebbing defends a model of scientific progress that, to some extent, pre-empts Thomas Kuhn’s attempt to change the “image of science” in  The Structure of Scientific Revolutions . I will also show how Stebbing’s response to Eddington’s attempt to use developments in modern physics to argue for idealism fit into her wider metaphysical outlook – which she elsewhere refers to as ‘realism’.

L. Susan Stebbing Philosophy and the Physicists (1937): a re-appraisal