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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... knowledge and personal identity , on Mach and the Vienna Circle , and on aesthetics . T. H. IRWIN is Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University . His books include Plato's Gorgias ( translation with notes , 1979 ) ...
... knowledge and personal identity , on Mach and the Vienna Circle , and on aesthetics . T. H. IRWIN is Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University . His books include Plato's Gorgias ( translation with notes , 1979 ) ...
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... knowledge " - for neither our perceptual judgements nor our judgements of memory are explicable without assuming that we really do remember things : as all the explanations of mental phenomena presuppose Memory , Memory itself cannot ...
... knowledge " - for neither our perceptual judgements nor our judgements of memory are explicable without assuming that we really do remember things : as all the explanations of mental phenomena presuppose Memory , Memory itself cannot ...
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... knowledge of external causes of sensation ) , it also has that consequence in the case of memory . In this respect there is no asymmetry between the two faculties . Mill does also say , of the tie between a sensation and a memory of it ...
... knowledge of external causes of sensation ) , it also has that consequence in the case of memory . In this respect there is no asymmetry between the two faculties . Mill does also say , of the tie between a sensation and a memory of it ...
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... knowledge is possible , we must either conclude that some proposi- tions are assertible irrespective of empirical evidence or deny that normative claims are propositions - judgeable contents - at all . The latter , expressivist , path ...
... knowledge is possible , we must either conclude that some proposi- tions are assertible irrespective of empirical evidence or deny that normative claims are propositions - judgeable contents - at all . The latter , expressivist , path ...
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... knowledge " results from " an inquiry the results of which do not express themselves in the indicative , but in the imperative mood , or in periphrases equivalent to it " ( CW VIII : 943 ) . This at least makes it clear that Mill does ...
... knowledge " results from " an inquiry the results of which do not express themselves in the indicative , but in the imperative mood , or in periphrases equivalent to it " ( CW VIII : 943 ) . This at least makes it clear that Mill does ...
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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