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Book SynopsisIn this two-volume work of 1843, John Stuart Mill (180673) establishes the principles of inductive reasoning and experimental method that inform his later works of political and social philosophy. Volume 2 includes Book VI, 'On the Logic of the Moral Sciences', an important early treatment of social science.
Table of ContentsBook 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 its 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.
