A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive - Volume 2

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-108-04089-1
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 640 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 892 g

Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - Philosophy

This two-volume work, first published in 1843, was John Stuart Mill's first major book. It reinvented the modern study of logic and laid the foundations for his later work in the areas of political economy, women's rights and representative government. In clear, systematic prose, Mill (1806-73) disentangles syllogistic logic from its origins in Aristotle and scholasticism and grounds it instead in processes of inductive reasoning. An important attempt at integrating empiricism within a more general theory of human knowledge, the work constitutes essential reading for anyone seeking a full understanding of Mill's thought. Continuing the discussion of induction, Volume 2 concludes with Book VI, 'On the Logic of the Moral Sciences', in which Mill applies empirical reasoning to human behaviour. A crucial early formulation of his thinking regarding free will and necessity, this book establishes the centrality of 'the social science' to Mill's philosophy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mill, John Stuart

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 19. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophische Logik, Argumentationstheorie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Book III. On Induction (continued): 14. Of the limits to the explanation of laws of nature
and of hypotheses
15. Of progressive effects
and of the continued action of causes
16. Of empirical laws
17. Of chance, and ist elimination
18. Of the calculation of chances
19. Of the extension of derivative laws to adjacent cases
20. Of analogy
21. Of the evidence of the law of universal causation
22. Of uniformities of co-existence not dependent upon causation
23. Of approximate generalizations, and probable evidence
24. Of the remaining laws of nature
25. Of the grounds of disbelief
Book IV. Of Operations Subsidiary to Induction: 1. Of observation, and description
2. Of abstraction, of the formation of conceptions
3. Of naming, as subsidiary to induction
4. Of the requisites of a philosophical language
and the principles of definition
5. Of the natural history of the variations in the meaning of terms
6. The principles of a philosophical language further considered
7. Of classification, as subsidiary to induction
8. Of classification by series
Book V. On Fallacies: 1. Of fallacies in general
2. Classification of fallacies
3. Fallacies of simple inspection, or à priori fallacies
4. Fallacies of observation
5. Fallacies of generalization
6. Fallacies of ratiocination
7. Fallacies of confusion
Book VI. On the Logic of the Moral Sciences: 1. Introductory remarks
2. Of liberty and necessity
3. That there is, or may be, a science of human nature
4. Of the laws of mind
5. Of ethology, or the science of the formation of character
6. General considerations on the social science
7. Of the chemical, or experimental method in the social science
8. Of the geometrical, or abstract method
9. Of the physical, or concrete deductive method
10. Of the inverse deductive, or historical method
11. Of the logic of practice, or art including morality and policy.