Mill's A System of Logic: Critical Appraisals (Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy)

John Stuart Mill considered his __A System of Logic__, first published in 1843, the methodological foundation and intellectual groundwork of his later works in ethical, social, and political theory. Yet no book has attempted in the past to engage with the most important aspects of Mill's __Logic__. This volume brings together leading scholars to elucidate the key themes of this influential work, looking at such topics as his philosophy of language and mathematics, his view on logic, induction and deduction, free will, argumentation, ethology and psychology, as well as his account of normativity, kinds of pleasure, philosophical and political method and the "Art of Life." Cover 1 Title 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 Foreword 8 Preface 10 Introduction 12 1 Mill on Names 55 2 The Sources of Mill’s Views of Ratiocination and Induction 74 3 Mill and the Philosophy of Mathematics: Physicalism and Fictionalism 94 4 Mill’s and Whewell’s Competing Visions of Logic 112 5 A Double Helix: Mill and Bain on Logic, Psychology and Ethology 133 6 In Defense of Mill’s Theory of Free Will 145 7 Mill on the Epistemology of Reasons: A Comparison with Kant 162 8 Different Kinds of Pleasure 181 9 Mill, Informal Logic and Argumentation 203 10 Mill on the Method of Politics 229 11 A System of Logic and the “Art of Life” 257 Contributors 274 Index 278 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."