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	John Stuart Mill
		Mill's conception of logic was not entirely that of modern logicians; besides formal logic, what he called "the logic of consistency", he thought that there was a logic of proof, that is, a logic that would show how evidence proved or tended to prove the conclusions we draw from the evidence.
		Mill's account of explanation in science was broadly that explanation seeks the causes of events where it is events in which we are interested; or seeks more general laws where we are concerned to explain less general laws as special cases of those laws.
		Mill's discussion of the possibility of finding a scientific explanation of social events has worn equally well; Mill was as unwilling to suppose that the social sciences would become omniscient about human behaviour as to suppose that there was no prospect of explaining social affairs at any deeper level than that of common sense.
	www.utilitarianism.com /jsmill.htm (1332 words)

	John Stuart Mill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Influence of Mary Bentham on John Stuart Mill.
		· John Stuart Mill and the Destruction of Theism.
		Mill: the Utilitarian Influence in the Demise of laissez-faire.
	www.utilitarian.net /jsmill (1019 words)

	Mill, John Stuart -- a. Overview [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Mill suggested that Bentham and Coleridge were “the two great seminal minds of England in their age” and used each essay to show their strengths and weaknesses, implying that a more complete philosophical position remained open for articulation.
		Mill was probably most swayed by her in the realms of political, ethical, and social thought, but less so in the areas of logic and political economy (with the possible exception of his views on socialism).
		Mill’s argument that the principles of mathematics and logic are justified by appeal to experience depends upon his distinction between verbal and real propositions, that is, between propositions that do not convey new information to the person who understands the meaning of the proposition’s terms and those propositions that do convey new information.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/m/milljs.htm (10554 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : John Stuart Mill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		John Stuart Mill (May 20, 1806 – May 8, 1873), an English philosopher and political economist, was an influential classical liberal thinker of the 19th century.
		John Stuart Mill was born in Pentonville, London, the eldest son of the Scottish philosopher, economist and historian James Mill.
		Mill worked for the British East India Company, and after the company was dissolved he was elected for a brief period as an independent member of Parliament, representing the City and Westminster constituency from 1865 to 1868.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /John_Stuart_Mill (4453 words)

	Island of Freedom - John Stuart Mill
		John Stuart Mill, British philosopher-economist, the son of James Mill, had a great impact on 19th-century British thought, not only in philosophy and economics but also in the areas of political science, logic, and ethics.
		Mill was early introduced to the Benthamites, who actively pursued various social and political reforms along the utilitarian lines laid down by Jeremy Bentham.
		In his early twenties Mill experienced a "mental crisis," in which he was overcome by intense depression and plagued by doubts concerning the causes to which he had previously been devoted, including the Benthamite philosophy of which he had become a leading spokesman.
	www.island-of-freedom.com /MILL.HTM (1037 words)

	John Stuart Mill - MSN Encarta
		In 1822 Mill began to work as a clerk for his father in the examiner’s office of the India House, and six years later he was promoted to the post of assistant examiner.
		Mill stands as a bridge between the 18th-century concern for liberty, reason, and science and the 19th-century trend toward empiricism and collectivism.
		In political economy, Mill advocated those policies that he believed most consistent with individual liberty, and he emphasized that liberty could be threatened as much by social as by political tyranny.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761572176/Mill_John_Stuart.html (432 words)

	Portrait: 'John Stuart Mill' by Richard Reeves \| Prospect Magazine May 2006 issue 122
		Mill was a man who saw little value in ideas unless they were tethered to human improvement, and was brilliantly successful at using his intellectual stature to influence the politics and culture of his age.
		Mill used his new status as the brain of liberal Britain to beat away at the complacency of the ruling class in the face of the tragedy of the Irish famine.
		Mill was an enemy of jingoism and the adulation of military heroes—he persistently attacked Wellington, a national hero.
	www.prospect-magazine.co.uk /article_details.php?id=7439 (4218 words)

	John Stuart Mill (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		Mill is thus arguing that, while there are no objective necessary connections, there is nonetheless an objective basis for the necessity of logic, but that it is a fact about the ordinary world that forms this basis, a deep fact to be sure, but a fact nonetheless.
		What Mill does argue about the necessity of geometry and arithmetic, and, for that matter, the basic axioms of other sciences such as physics and chemistry, is that these principles, while from the point of view of their truth are inductive generalizations, are from the point of view of the thinker matters of psychological necessity.
		For Mill the inconceivability of the opposite in the case of perceptual judgments and judgments of sense was a matter of psychology while the inconceivability of the opposite in the case of logic was a matter of that opposite being inconsistent, which is not a matter of psychology.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/mill (21345 words)

	John Stuart Mill
		John Stuart Mill, the eldest son of the philosopher, James Mill, was born in London on 20th May, 1806.
		In the House of Commons Mill campaigned with Henry Fawcett and Peter Alfred Taylor for parliamentary reform and in 1866 presented the petition organised by Barbara Bodichon, Emily Davies, Elizabeth Garrett and Dorothea Beale in favour of women's suffrage.
		John Stuart Mill agreed to present a petition from women householders… On 7th June 1866 the petition with 1,500 signatures was taken to the House of Commons.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /PRmill.htm (1474 words)

	John Stuart Mill (1806-1873), Harriet Taylor Mill (1807 — 1858), and Helen Taylor (1831-1907) Women's History Month ...
		Mill was the most prestigious radical writer in England and his the most prestigious name to be associated with the cause of women's social and political advancement.
		By the time John Mill reached adulthood, he was educated in all of the formal things in life, but he knew little to nothing of the arts, popular culture, human beings, or the social skills that make life fun and interesting for his father had given him an emotionally impoverished youth.
		John Mill was unsparing in his praise for Helen, comparing her favorably with her mother.
	www.pinn.net /~sunshine/whm2003/js_mill4.html (2116 words)

	John Stuart Mill (1806-1873).
		John Stuart's father, James Mill (1773-1836), was a "grim and exacting man." James Mill and Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) were close friends, together they founded the utilitarian school in philosophy ("the greatest happiness of the greatest number").
		Another thinker3 was of the view that John Stuart Mill treated "his assertions as if they have scientific authority, as if they have been demonstrated, when they have not been at all.
		Mill's fundamental principles have neither proof nor philosophical authority, but are commitments to action, the outcome of assertions to claim knowledge of the nature of the world and the direction men's duty ought to take within it:...
	www.blupete.com /Literature/Biographies/Philosophy/Mill.htm (1709 words)

	John Stuart Mill
		The Influence of Mary Bentham on John Stuart Mill.
		Given the amazing range of Mill's interests and the bewildering variety of fields and disciplines to which he made substantial contributions, the study of his work and thought suffers from the inevitable compartmentalisation that has resulted from the ever-increasing specialisation of knowledge and the development of distinct disciplines and sub-disciplines since his death.
		Mill: the Utilitarian Influence in the Demise of laissez-faire.
	utilitarian.net /jsmill (1019 words)

	JOHN STUART MILL (1806... - Online Information article about JOHN STUART MILL (1806...
		Mill expressly says that his childhood was not unhappy.
		Mill complains that his father often required more than could be expected of him, but his tasks were not so severe as to prevent him from growing up a healthy and high-spirited boy, though he was not constitutionally robust, and his pursuits were so different from those of other boys of the same age.
		Mill could now feel that his main work was accomplished; he remained, however, on the alert for opportunities of useful influence, and pressed on with hardly diminished enthusiasm in his search for useful truth.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /MIC_MOL/MILL_JOHN_STUART_1806_1873_.html (4985 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of John Stuart Mill
		John Stuart Mill was born on May 20, 1806 in north London, the oldest of nine children.
		Mill's Autobiography, completed shortly before his death in 1873, recounted the experiences that he had with the London Debating Society where his view were seen as being the product of an obsessive academic upbringing, with but more plain memorization than true philosophical thought.
		Mill's interest in current politics and issues of the day did not wane aside all of his writing, and in actuality he ran for and won the Parliamentary seat of Westminster without any campaigning since he found it improper to attempt to sway the vote due to his beliefs on political process.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/authors/about_john_stuart_mill.html (607 words)

	Mill
		Philosophically, Mill was a radical empiricist who held that all human knowledge, including even mathematics and logic, is derived by generalization from sensory experience.
		Mill's moral philosophy was a modified version of the utilitarian theory he had learned from his father and Bentham.
		He modified and defended the general principle that right actions are those that tend to produce the greatest happiness of the greatest number of people, being careful to include a distinction in the quality of the pleasures that constitute happiness.
	www.philosophypages.com /ph/mill.htm (360 words)

	John Stuart Mill, Speech in Favor of Capital Punishment
		About the Author: John Stuart Mill (1806-73) is one of the foremost representative of utilitarian thought as well as one of the most influential of nineteenth century liberals.
		As a utilitarian, Mill is concerned primarily with the consequences of proposed courses of action.
		Mill states that a punishment’s "practical power depends far less on what it is than on what it seems." Explain what he means by this.
	ethics.sandiego.edu /Mill.html (2407 words)

	John Stuart Mill, Biography: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: Library of Economics and Liberty
		The eldest son of economist James Mill, John Stuart Mill was educated according to the rigorous expectations of his Benthamite father.
		Mill was a strong believer in freedom, especially of speech and of thought.
		Mill strongly believed, possibly due to the influence of his wife, Harriet Taylor, whom he idolized, that women were the equals of men.
	www.econlib.org /library/Enc/bios/Mill.html (551 words)

	BBC - Radio 4 - In Our Time - Greatest Philosopher - John Stuart Mill
		Mill believed that morals are not innate but that the basic moral norm is the principle of utility.
		However, Mill tried to accommodate this to a sense of moral obligation between people and to a belief that humans are not necessarily driven by a sense of their own happiness.
		Mill also found time to get elected to parliament, campaign for woman's suffrage, have a period of acute depression, appreciate the poetry of Wordsworth and regularly speak at the Westminster debating society.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/history/inourtime/greatest_philosopher_js_mill.shtml (434 words)

	John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806-8 May 1873)
		Mill was considered one of the greatest of Victorian liberal thinkers, significantly impacting the study of philosophy through his restatements of the principles underlying philosophical empiricism and utilitarianism.
		However, while Mill advanced the cause of democracy to a considerable degree -- in 1869, he eloquently argued for the right of women to vote -- he nonetheless believed, like Plato, that "higher minds" should set the tone of society.
		Mill also suggests that there are some associations that will not be dissolved because they derive from true and valid connections in nature.
	www.victorianweb.org /philosophy/mill/bio.html (549 words)

	EpistemeLinks: Website results for philosopher John Stuart Mill
		John Stuart Mill was an English philosopher and political economist.
		He was the son of economist and political reformer James Mill, who, advised by Jeremy Bentham, educated John Stuart Mill in classical languages, social and natural sciences, and political theory from a very early age.
		Mill lived for many years with Harriet Taylor, who contributed much to his work, and who he married after her first husband died.
	www.epistemelinks.com /Main/Philosophers.aspx?PhilCode=Mill (367 words)

	Mill, John Stuart. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		She died in 1858, and Mill, profoundly affected, dedicated to her the famous On Liberty (1859), on which they had worked together.
		John Stuart Mill’s philosophy followed the doctrines of his father and Jeremy Bentham, but he sought to temper them with humanitarianism.
		See M. Cowling, Mill and Liberalism (1963); J. Robson, The Improvement of Mankind: The Social and Political Thought of John Stuart Mill (1968); H. McCloskey, John Stuart Mill: A Critical Study (1971); F. von Hayek, John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor: Their Correspondence and Subsequent Marriage (1951, repr.
	www.bartleby.com /65/mi/Mill-JS.html (456 words)

	Amazon.com: John Stuart Mill: A Biography: Books: Nicholas Capaldi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Mill met her when he was not quite 25 (there is no intimation that he was ever interested in any other woman until then) and she was 23, married and the mother of two sons (a daughter was to be born the following year).
		John Taylor conveniently went to his club so that his wife and Mill could dine together, and he remained home while they went to her country home or traveled abroad, sometimes, but not always, chaperoned by her children.
		She was also, Mill insisted, his own superior in "the highest regions of speculation" as well as in "the smallest practical concerns of daily life." Capaldi also credits Mill's attribution to her of a decisive influence on all of his work, during and after her lifetime.
	www.amazon.com /John-Stuart-Mill-Nicholas-Capaldi/dp/0521620244 (1941 words)

	John Stuart Mill Collection at Bartleby.com
		In 1851, following the death of her husband, he married Harriet Taylor, whom he had loved for 20 years.
		She died in 1858, and Mill, profoundly affected, dedicated to her the famous On Liberty (1859), on which they had worked together.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.
		John Stuart Mill, System of Logic, Utilitarianism, On Liberty, Political Economy, John Stuart Mill, Essays on a liberal education
	www.bartleby.com /people/Mill-JS.html (172 words)

	John Stuart Mill's On Liberty
		On Liberty is a rational justification of the freedom of the individual in opposition to the claims of the state to impose unlimited control and is thus a defence of the rights of the individual against the state.
		This work contained Mill's principle that only self-protection can justify either the state's tampering with the liberty of the individual or any personal interference with another's freedom -- particularly with respect to freedom of thought and discussion.
		In this essay Mill also warns of a second danger to liberty, which democracies are prone to, namely, the tyranny of the majority.
	www.victorianweb.org /philosophy/mill/liberty.html (1038 words)

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