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Logic and Reality in the Philosophy of John Stuart Mill (Hardcover, 1989 ed.)
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Logic and Reality in the Philosophy of John Stuart Mill (Hardcover, 1989 ed.)
Series: Synthese Historical Library, 34
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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."
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