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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... the quality in Mill which the subsequent century found hardest to come to terms with . It connects Mill with Hegel's German contemporaries . It remains a difficulty , perhaps the greatest remaining difficulty , in our Introduction 3.
... the quality in Mill which the subsequent century found hardest to come to terms with . It connects Mill with Hegel's German contemporaries . It remains a difficulty , perhaps the greatest remaining difficulty , in our Introduction 3.
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John Skorupski. difficulty , perhaps the greatest remaining difficulty , in our own understanding of Mill . We shall come back to it in section IV . Generational revolt aside , the last forty years of the nineteenth century saw major ...
John Skorupski. difficulty , perhaps the greatest remaining difficulty , in our own understanding of Mill . We shall come back to it in section IV . Generational revolt aside , the last forty years of the nineteenth century saw major ...
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... Perhaps Mill could say that the strong view is justified in the case of perception precisely because we are dealing with a disposition to form factual beliefs . But the point to note for present purposes is rather this : Mill produces ...
... Perhaps Mill could say that the strong view is justified in the case of perception precisely because we are dealing with a disposition to form factual beliefs . But the point to note for present purposes is rather this : Mill produces ...
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... ence conception of truth and a matching epistemology . But the thesis that all propositional content is factual content is perhaps the deepest doctrine of modernism in philosophy . It was endorsed 14 THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO MILL.
... ence conception of truth and a matching epistemology . But the thesis that all propositional content is factual content is perhaps the deepest doctrine of modernism in philosophy . It was endorsed 14 THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO MILL.
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... theoretical as well as of practical reason ? Does he take enumerative induction and a principle con- cerning the authority of memory to be such imperatives ? The issue is crucial and Mill's silence on the point is perhaps Introduction 15.
... theoretical as well as of practical reason ? Does he take enumerative induction and a principle con- cerning the authority of memory to be such imperatives ? The issue is crucial and Mill's silence on the point is perhaps Introduction 15.
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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