Mill, Intuitions and Normativity
Utilitas 25 (1):46-65 (2013)
| Abstract | It is the purpose of this article to offer an account of Mill's metaethics. Expanding upon clues given recently by Dale Miller, and previously by John Skorupski, I suggest that when it comes to the foundations of his philosophy, Mill might share more with the intuitionists than we are accustomed to think. Common wisdom holds that Mill had no time for the normativity of intuitions. I wish to dispute, or at least temper, this dogma, by claiming that Mill's attitude towards intuitions is far more complex and ambivalent than is generally thought. I argue that, according to Mill, our belief in the reliability of inductive moves and apparent memories, as well as the desirability of pleasure, is vindicated by something akin to intuition. Although his endorsement of the normativity of these intuitions might seem to be in tension with the arguments he offers against the , this tension is only apparent | |||||||||
| Keywords | No keywords specified (fix it) | |||||||||
| Categories | No categories specified (fix it) | |||||||||
| Options |
|
|||||||||
Download options| PhilPapers Archive |
Upload a copy of this paper Check publisher's policy on self-archival Papers currently archived: 5,875 |
| External links |
  Try with proxy. |
| Through your library | Configure |
Similar books and articlesDale E. Miller (2010). Brown on Mill's Moral Theory: A Critical Response. Politics, Philosophy and Economics 9 (1):47-66.
John Skorupski (ed.) (1998). The Cambridge Companion to Mill. Cambridge University Press.
Dale E. Miller (2004). On Millgram on Mill. Utilitas 16 (1):96-108.
Steven D. Hales (2007). Mill V. Miller, or Higher and Lower Pleasures. In Steven Hales (ed.), Beer & Philosophy. Wiley-Blackwell.
John V. Strong (1978). John Stuart Mill, John Herschel, and the 'Probability of Causes'. PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1978:31 - 41.
Christopher Macleod (2013). Was Mill a Noncognitivist? Southern Journal of Philosophy 51 (2):206-223.
Samuel Clark (2011). Love, Poetry, and the Good Life: Mill's Autobiography and Perfectionist Ethics. Inquiry 53 (6):565-578.
Alan Ryan (1974). J. S. Mill. Routledge and Kegan Paul.
John Stuart Mill (2009). Utilitarianism. In Steven M. Cahn (ed.), Exploring Philosophy: An Introductory Anthology. Oxford University Press.
Alan Haworth (2007). On Mill, Infallibility, and Freedom of Expression. Res Publica 13 (1).
Alan E. Fuchs (2001). Autonomy, Slavery, and Mill's Critique of Paternalism. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 4 (3):231-251.
Ben Eggleston (2010). Rules and Their Reasons : Mill on Morality and Instrumental Rationality. In Ben Eggleston, Dale E. Miller & D. Weinstein (eds.), John Stuart Mill and the Art of Life. Oxford University Press.
Stewart Duncan (2012). Leibniz's Mill Arguments Against Materialism. Philosophical Quarterly 62 (247):250-72.
Dale E. Miller (2011). Mill, Rule Utilitarianism, and the Incoherence Objection. In Ben Eggleston, Dale E. Miller & D. Weinstein (eds.), John Stuart Mill and the Art of Life. Oxford University Press.
Nadia Urbinati & Alex Zakaras (eds.) (2007). J.S. Mill's Political Thought: A Bicentennial Reassessment. Cambridge University Press.
Analytics
Monthly downloads
Sorry, there are not enough data points to plot this chart.
|
Added to index2012-10-26Total downloads1 ( #277,406 of 556,840 )Recent downloads (6 months)1 ( #64,931 of 556,840 )How can I increase my downloads? |
My notes
Discussion
