The Cambridge Companion to Mill

John Stuart Mill (1806–73) ranks among the very greatest thinkers of the nineteenth century. His impact through his books, journalism, correspondence, and political activity on modern culture and thought has been immense, and his continuing importance for contemporary philosophy and social thought is widely recognised. This Companion furnishes the reader with a systematic and fully up-to-date account of the many facets of Mill’s thought and influence. New readers will find this the most convenient and accessible guide to Mill currently available. Advanced students and specialists will find a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of Mill.

• Systematic, comprehensive, accessible • Mill has had a profound influence on Western thought and culture so interest in volume will extend well beyond philosophy into political science, intellectual history, economics, and literary studies • Women’s Studies is a further market for this book - Mill is the author of one of the major essays in the history of the women’s movement, The Subjection of Women • Skorupski is widely acknowledged as a preeminent Mill interpreter

Introduction: the fortunes of liberal naturalism John Skorupski; 1. Language and logic John Skorupski; 2. Mill, mathematics and the naturalist tradition Philip Kitcher; 3. Induction and the scientific method Geoffrey Scarre; 4. Phenomenalism and the self Andy Hamilton; 5. Religion Alan Millar; 6. Psychology and the moral sciences Fred Wilson; 7. Utilitarianism Wendy Donner; 8. Mill’s political economy: Ricardian science and the liberal utilitarian art Jonathan Riley; 9. Civilisation and culture as moral concepts John Robson; 10. Democracy, socialism and the working classes C. L. Ten; 11. The subjection of women Mary Lyndon Shanley; 12. Mill and the classical world Terence Irwin; 13. The Reception and Early Reputation of Mill’s Political Thought Peter Nicholson; 14. Mill in a liberal landscape Alan Ryan.