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Reforming Philosophy: A Victorian Debate on Science and Society
Ist Teil von
Victorian Review, 2009, Vol.35 (1), p.256-258
Ort / Verlag
Edmonton: Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada
Erscheinungsjahr
2009
Quelle
Literature Online (LION)
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Snyder undermines the conventional, polarized pictures of these two figures by demonstrating that much of Whewell's criticism is valid only of the young Mill, before he undertook his critique of Bentham's one-sided utilitarianism; by pointing to a series of cases where Mill misunderstood Whewell's position; and by insisting that we read Mill and Whewell in context in order to recover the full complexity of their positions. Chapter 2 deals with Mill's radicalization of induction—his attempt to build an ultra-empiricist scientific method that demonstrated that mind contributed nothing to knowledge of the physical world. Chapter 3 focuses on the controversy between Mill and Whewell over the confirmation of scientific theories, using their evaluation of Darwin's theory of evolution as a case study.