Instructor:

Elijah Millgram

John Stuart Mill is read today primarily as a moral and political philosopher: the most articulate spokesman for utilitarianism and liberalism, and an important early feminist. But Mill was also the last and most thorough of the great British Empiricists, and a systematic philosopher who was willing and able to produce deep arguments for extremely counterintuitive views in philosophy of logic and mathematics, philosophy of science and social science, and in philosophy of psychology. We will read Mill's most important writings, with an eye to placing the moral and political theory within his larger philosophical view. We will also consider his biography, and the ways his philosophical work played out in his very unusual life.

Counts towards the Graduate Early Modern requirement.

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