Mill''s a System of Logic - Critical Appraisals

List of contents

Foreword, John Skorupski Preface Introduction Antis Loizides 1. Mill on Names Stephen P. Schwartz 2. The Sources of Mill’s View of Ratiocination and Induction Steffen Ducheyne and John P. McCaskey 3. Mill and the Philosophy of Mathematics: Physicalism and Fictionalism Mark Balaguer 4. Mill’s and Whewell’s Competing Visions of Logic Elijah Millgram 5. A Double Helix: Mill and Bain on Logic, Psychology and Ethology Frederick Rosen 6. In Defense of Mill’s Theory of Free Will Bernard Berofsky 7. Mill on the Epistemology of Reasons: A Comparison with Kant Christopher Macleod 8. Different Kinds of Pleasure Jonathan Riley 9. Mill, Informal Logic and Argumentation Hans V. Hansen 10. Mill on the Method of Politics Antis Loizides 11. A System of Logic and the "Art of Life" Alan Ryan

Summary

This volume brings together leading Mill scholars to elucidate the key themes of A System of Logic, looking at such topics as his theory of names, "philosophical necessity," his discussion on fallacies, ethology and psychology, philosophical method, and the "Art of Life."

Product details

• Authors: Antis Loizides
• Assisted by: Antis Loizides (Editor), Loizides Antis (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.06.2014
• EAN: 9780415841245
• ISBN: 978-0-415-84124-5
• No. of pages: 282
• Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / General, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, PHILOSOPHY / Logic, Economic history, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: logic, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge