Publisher's Synopsis
'A monumental history . . . learned, lucid, patient and comprehensive.'
NEW STATESMAN
'We can only applaud at the end of each act and look forward to applauding again at the final curtain.'
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
Utilitarianism to Early Analytic Philosophy
The eighth volume of Copleston's A History of Philosophy opens with an examination of the turn to empiricism in nineteenth-century Britain, analysing the important work of utilitarian thinkers such as Bentham and Mill. It details the development of idealism in both Britain and America as well as the revolt against it represented by the work of Moore and Russell in the twentieth century. There is also an invaluable section on Peirce's and Dewey's pragmatism. Bentham Bradley Dewey James Mill Moore Peirce Royce Russell Spencer