Mill by Skorupski, John M. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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The Arguments of the Philosophers Contents Preface Abbreviations 1 The Millian Philosophy

1 Philosophy and its past 2 Logic and metaphysics 3 Ethics and politics 4 The school of experience and association 5 Naturalism and the criterion of general good 6 The dialectic of criticism and allegiance 7 Naturalism, objectivity, autonomy 8 Mill in the present

2 The Analysis of Language

1 ’Of the necessity of commencing with an analysis of language’ 2 Propositions 3 Classification of names 4 Connotation and denotation 5 The import of propositions: Conceptualism and Nominalism 6 The import of propositions: Mill’s theory 7 Proper names 8 Predication, assertion, denial 9 Simple and compound propositions 10 Mill and Frege

3 Verbal Propositions and Apparent Inference

1 Agenda 2 Real and verbal propositions 3 Non-connotative propositions are verbal 4 Real and apparent inference 5 Mill’s ‘verbal’ and Kant’s ‘analytic’ 6 Essence 7 Defining a name 8 The foundation of an attribute 9 ‘Nominalism’ and Mill’s nominalism

4 The Justification of Deduction

1 Introductory 2 Analysis of rules of deductive inference 3 Mill's analysis of the syllogism 4 Is the syllogism a petitio principii? 5 General propositions have no probative force of their own 6 Demystifying deduction 7 All inference is from particulars to particulars 8 The Logic of Consistency and the Logic of Truth

5 Empiricism in Logic and Mathematics

1 Reviewing the strategy 2 Geometry 3 Arithmetic: the refutation of ‘Nominalism’ 4 Numbers and aggregates 5 Arithmetic contains real propositions 6 The laws of thought 7 Perceptual imagination 8 Necessity, aprioricity, and conceivability 9 The a priori in reasoning Appendix: Mill’s ‘psychologism’

6 Induction and Inductivism

1 Inductive logic 2 ‘The question of Inductive Logic stated’ 3 The Law of Universal Causation 4 The eliminative methods of induction (i)

FIRST CANON SECOND CANON THIRD CANON AMENDED THIRD CANON FOURTH CANON FIFTH CANON

5 The eliminative methods of induction (ii) 6 The place of the eliminative methods in M.ill’s inductive logic 7 Inductive scepticism and the internal validation of induction 8 Hypotheses17

7 Induction, Perception and Consciousness

1 The ‘phenomenal relativity of knowledge’ 2 Inductivism and the manifest image 3 Inductivism and inductive scepticism 4 Naturalism and the classical pre-understanding of meaning 5 The ‘interpretation of consciousness’ 6 The ‘introspective’ and the ‘psychological’ methods 7 Phenomenalism9 8 Minds 9 Phenomenalism and naturalism 10 Subjective and objective

8 The Logic of the Moral Sciences

1 ‘Human conduct as a subject of science’ 2 Freedom as rational autonomy 3 Empirical and ultimate laws: explanation and reduction 4 The primacy of psychology: associationism 5 Ethology: the historicity of human nature 6 Sociology: the evolutionary science of society 7 The methods of social science 8 Methodological individualism 9 Can there be a ‘science of human nature’? 10 Interpretation

9 Utilitarianism

1 Introductory 2 The ‘proof’ of the Principle of Utility 3 The objectivity of ends: (i) Humean scepticism 4 The objectivity of ends: (ii) the desire-satisfaction model 5 Hedonism 6 The refutation of hedonism 7 Kinds of pleasure and categorial diversity of ends 8 Impartiality and agent-neutral reasons 9 Philosophical utilitarianism 10 Utilitarianism and the distinctness of individuals 11 Indirect utilitarianism9 12 Bentham and Coleridge: conservative holism 13 Justice and rights 14 Autonomy and distribution 15 Reflective equilibrium

10 Liberty

1 The themes of On Liberty 2 The Liberty Principle 3 Foundations for liberty: utility, natural rights, scepticism 4 Individuality 5 Autonomy 6 Paternalism 7 Utility and ideals 8 Liberty, justice and the private domain 9 Liberty of expression: the dialogue model 10 Liberty of expression: fallibilism 11 Liberty of expression: truth, autonomy and the ideal of rationality 12 Towards liberalism

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