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| Name | John Stuart Mill | | Birth date | 20 May 1806 | | Birth place | Pentonville, London, England | | Death date | 8 May 1873(age 66) | | Death place | Avignon, France | | Era | 19th-century philosophy,
Classical economics | | Region | Western Philosophy | | School | Empiricism, utilitarianism, liberalism | | Main interests | Political philosophy, ethics, economics, inductive logic | | Notable ideas | public/private sphere, hierarchy of pleasures in Utilitarianism, liberalism, early liberal feminism, harm principle, Mill's Methods | | Influenced by | Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Aquinas, Hobbes, Locke, Bentham, Francis Place, James Mill, Harriet Taylor Mill, Smith, Ricardo, Tocqueville, von Humboldt, Goethe, Coleridge, Bain, Comte Saint-Simon (Utopian Socialists) | | Influenced | William James, John Rawls, Robert Nozick, Bertrand Russell, Karl Popper, Ronald Dworkin, H.L.A. Hart, Peter Singer, Wilhelm Dilthey, Paul Feyerabend, Zechariah Chafee, John Maynard Keynes, Will Kymlicka, Carlos Vaz Ferreira,Norman Finkelstein |
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John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 - 8 May 1873) was a British philosopher and civil servant. An influential contributor to social theory, political theory, and political economy, his conception of liberty justified the freedom of the individual in opposition to unlimited state control. He was a proponent of utilitarianism, an ethical theory developed by Jeremy Bentham, although his conception of it was very different from Bentham's. Hoping to remedy the problems found in an inductive approach to science, such as confirmation bias, he clearly set forth the premises of falsification as the key component in the scientific method. Mill was also a Member of Parliament and an important figure in liberal political philosophy.
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