Major Works

• A System of Logic, Rationative and Inductive (1843)

  - Mill, J.S., System of Logic, Rationative and Inductive, in Robson ed., The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill,  Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1963-.
  Excerpt: This book makes no pretence of giving to the world a new theory of the intellectual operations. Its claim to attention, if it possess any, is grounded on the fact that it is an attempt not to supersede, but to embody and systematize, the best ideas… More

Commentary

• History of the Inductive Sciences

  - Whewell, W. History of the Inductive Sciences. 3 vols. London: J. Parker, 1837.
  Excerpt: It is my purpose to write the history of some of the most important of the physical sciences, from the earliest to the most recent periods. I shall thus have to trace some of the most remarkable branches of human knowledge,from their first germ to… More

• That Noble Science of Politics: A Study in Nineteenth-Century Intellectual History

  - Burrow, John, and Stefan Collini and Donald Winch.  That Noble Science of Politics: A Study in Nineteenth-Century Intellectual History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
  From the publisher: In this unusual and important work, three well-known historians of ideas examine the diverse forms taken in nineteenth-century Britain by the aspiration to develop what was then known as a ‘science of politics’. This aspiration… More

• Science and British Liberalism: Locke, Bentham, Mill and Popper

  - Jacobs, Struan. Science and British Liberalism: Locke, Bentham, Mill and Popper. Avebury: Aldershot, 1991.
  From the publisher: British liberal philosophy is widely regarded as a tradition that has been shaped by science and philosophy of science. Through detailed study of writings by Locke, Bentham, Mill, and Popper on epistemology, politics and related subjects,… More

• The Cambridge Companion to John Stuart Mill

  - Skorupski, John, ed. The Cambridge Companion to John Stuart Mill. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
  From the publisher: “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… More