British Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century

This book offers a general and accessible account of British philosophy during the nineteenth century. Looking at debates in ethics, political theory, metaphysics, the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of religion, and the philosophy of science, it takes readers from the revolutionary feminism of Mary Wollstonecraft at the start of the century through to the dominance of British Idealism at its end. The most famous philosophical names of the age, like Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, John...