The Cambridge Companion to MillJohn Skorupski Cambridge University Press, 1998 M01 13 - 591 pages John Stuart Mill was one of the greatest thinkers of the nineteenth century. His impact on modern culture and thought has been immense, and his continuing importance for contemporary philosophy and social thought is widely recognized. This companion furnishes the reader with a systematic and up-to-date account of the many facets of Mill's thought and influence. New readers will find this the most convenient and accessible guide to Mill currently available. Advanced students and specialists will find a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of Mill. |
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... critic - connect with much else in the philosophy and history of our century , not least with the rise I am grateful to Andy Hamilton for his helpful comments on a draft of this introduction . and fall of European modernism and European ...
... critic - connect with much else in the philosophy and history of our century , not least with the rise I am grateful to Andy Hamilton for his helpful comments on a draft of this introduction . and fall of European modernism and European ...
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... criticism of the coherence of naturalistic empiricism was in the spirit of the times . That same naturalism was rejected just as firmly by realists from Frege to Moore , and then later by Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle , who ...
... criticism of the coherence of naturalistic empiricism was in the spirit of the times . That same naturalism was rejected just as firmly by realists from Frege to Moore , and then later by Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle , who ...
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... criticism of analyticity which was noted above is a major part . Yet Quine's naturalism continues to maintain a view of the relation of language and thought which developed in the 1930s - a conception in which the mental has to be ...
... criticism of analyticity which was noted above is a major part . Yet Quine's naturalism continues to maintain a view of the relation of language and thought which developed in the 1930s - a conception in which the mental has to be ...
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... Critics of naturalism highlight the tradition of Hume . Hume's philosophy seems to show that a naturalistic science of the mind leaves no space for our notion of ourselves as persons acting , think- ing and feeling from reasons . Just ...
... Critics of naturalism highlight the tradition of Hume . Hume's philosophy seems to show that a naturalistic science of the mind leaves no space for our notion of ourselves as persons acting , think- ing and feeling from reasons . Just ...
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... critics . It is hard to put his thinking on this in a nutshell . Some of his programmatic statements about ... criticism of Bentham and Comte , the former in the essay on ' Bentham ' and its companion piece on ' Coleridge ' , and the ...
... critics . It is hard to put his thinking on this in a nutshell . Some of his programmatic statements about ... criticism of Bentham and Comte , the former in the essay on ' Bentham ' and its companion piece on ' Coleridge ' , and the ...
Contents
Mill on language and logic | 35 |
Mill mathematics and the naturalist tradition | 57 |
Mill on induction and scientific method | 112 |
Mill phenomenalism and the self | 139 |
Mill on religion | 176 |
Mill on psychology and the moral sciences | 203 |
Mills utilitarianism | 255 |
Mills political economy Ricardian science and liberal utilitarian art | 293 |
Democracy socialism and the working classes | 372 |
The subjection of women | 396 |
Mill and the Classical world | 423 |
The reception and early reputation of Mills political thought | 464 |
Mill in a liberal landscape | 497 |
Guide to further reading | 541 |
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