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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... important advance in the development of empiricism " ( Carnap 1963 , 47 ) . The doctrine became orthodox - a dogma one might say of analytic modernism - until the assault on the notion of analyticity which began in the 1950s , led by ...
... important advance in the development of empiricism " ( Carnap 1963 , 47 ) . The doctrine became orthodox - a dogma one might say of analytic modernism - until the assault on the notion of analyticity which began in the 1950s , led by ...
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... important difference which one should not obscure . Nonetheless a very much bigger change of ethical vision comes between both Mill and Green and this century's political ideas . Mill's and Green's concern with individual development ...
... important difference which one should not obscure . Nonetheless a very much bigger change of ethical vision comes between both Mill and Green and this century's political ideas . Mill's and Green's concern with individual development ...
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... important to bear in mind that the history of philosophical naturalism contains more than one way of doing epistemology in a naturalistic spirit . In particular there is the tradition , one might say , to which Hume belongs , and the ...
... important to bear in mind that the history of philosophical naturalism contains more than one way of doing epistemology in a naturalistic spirit . In particular there is the tradition , one might say , to which Hume belongs , and the ...
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... important ingredient in modernism makes it easier to recapture the underlying spirit of his ethics and politics . The ingredient in question is a constructivist vision of the social . It sees society as a machine for living together , a ...
... important ingredient in modernism makes it easier to recapture the underlying spirit of his ethics and politics . The ingredient in question is a constructivist vision of the social . It sees society as a machine for living together , a ...
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... backbone of Mill's ethics . Comte had also been an important influence on Mill . He did not convince Mill that psychology and economics , the strong points of the philosophic radicals , were pseudo - sciences - but he did Introduction 17.
... backbone of Mill's ethics . Comte had also been an important influence on Mill . He did not convince Mill that psychology and economics , the strong points of the philosophic radicals , were pseudo - sciences - but he did Introduction 17.
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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