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Logic and Reality in the Philosophy of John Stuart Mill

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Authors:
  1. Geoffrey Scarre

    1. Dept. of Philosophy, University of Durham, UK

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Part of the book series: Synthese Historical Library (SYHL, volume 34)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    • Geoffrey Scarre
    Pages 1-14

  3. Knowledge By Inference

    • Geoffrey Scarre
    Pages 15-37

  4. Problems About Proof and Implication

    • Geoffrey Scarre
    Pages 38-64

  5. Mill’s Positive Theories of Inference and the Syllogism

    • Geoffrey Scarre
    Pages 65-79

  6. The Possibility of Inductive Resoning

    • Geoffrey Scarre
    Pages 80-103

  7. Logic and the Objective World

    • Geoffrey Scarre
    Pages 104-125

  8. Global Empiricism

    • Geoffrey Scarre
    Pages 126-153

  9. The Relativity of Knowledge

    • Geoffrey Scarre
    Pages 154-170

  10. The World and Its Subject

    • Geoffrey Scarre
    Pages 171-203

  11. Mill’s Inconsistent Empiricism

    • Geoffrey Scarre
    Pages 204-220

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 221-244
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'Nobody reads Mill today,' wrote a reviewer in Time magazine a few years ago. ! One could scarcely praise Mr Melvin Maddocks, who penned that remark, for his awareness of the present state of Mill studies, for of all nineteenth century philosophers who wrote in English, it is 1. S. Mill who remains the most read today. Yet it would not be so far from the truth to say that very few people pay much serious attention nowadays to Mill's writings about logic and metaphysics (as distinct from those on ethical and social issues), despite the fact that Mill put enormous effort into their composition and through them exerted a considerable influen­ ce on the course of European philosophy for the rest of his century. But the only sections of A System of Logic (1843) and An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy (1865) to which much reference is now made comprise only a small proportion of those very large books, and the prevailing assumption is that Mill's theories about logical and meta­ physical questions are, with few exceptions, of merely antiquarian in­ terest. Bertrand Russell once said that Mill's misfortune was to be born at the wrong time (Russell (1951), p. 2). It can certainly appear that Mill chose an inauspicious time to attempt a major work on logic.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Dept. of Philosophy, University of Durham, UK

    Geoffrey Scarre

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Logic and Reality in the Philosophy of John Stuart Mill

  • Authors: Geoffrey Scarre

  • Series Title: Synthese Historical Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2579-3

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands 1989

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-2739-8Published: 31 October 1988

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-7665-4Published: 28 January 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-2579-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0082-111X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 244

  • Topics: Modern Philosophy

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