Philosophy of Scientific Method

The dominant figure of mid-nineteenth-century British political economy, John Stuart Mill exercised a lasting influence on philosophical thought. This compact statement of Mill's doctrines starts with an informative Introduction by editor Ernest Nagel and proceeds with extracts from A System of Logic that clarify Mill's processes of reasoning. The following five-part treatment draws upon the philosopher's major works to consider names and propositions; reasoning; induction; operations subsidiary to induction; and the logic of the moral sciences. Selections from An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophyconclude the text, along with an essay on the definition of political economy and its methods of investigation.Mill, John Stuart is the author of 'Philosophy of Scientific Method', published 2005 under ISBN 9780486446547 and ISBN 0486446549.