An Examination of Sir William Hamilton’s Philosophy

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"An Examination of Sir William Hamilton’s Philosophy" is an 1865 work by John Stuart Mill that critically analyzes and challenges the metaphysical and epistemological doctrines of the Scottish philosopher Sir William Hamilton.

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instanceOf book
philosophical work
addresses the limits of human knowledge
the relation between mind and external world
alternativeName An Examination of Sir William Hamilton’s Philosophy
surface form: Examination of Sir William Hamilton’s Philosophy
associatedWith British empiricist tradition
empiricism
author John Stuart Mill
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
criticizes the epistemological doctrines of Sir William Hamilton
the metaphysical doctrines of Sir William Hamilton
critiques the appeal to common sense as philosophical authority
the notion of immediate knowledge of the absolute
the theory of natural realism attributed to Hamilton
discusses the concept of necessity in thought
the nature of consciousness
the principle of non-contradiction
focusesOn the philosophy of Sir William Hamilton
follows Mill’s earlier works on logic and empiricism
genre non-fiction
philosophical criticism
hasAuthor John Stuart Mill
hasPart analysis of the notion of the infinite
critique of intuitionism in philosophy
critique of the doctrine of the conditioned
discussion of logic and formal reasoning
discussion of perception and external reality
hasTitle An Examination of Sir William Hamilton’s Philosophy self-link
historicalContext Victorian era philosophy
influenced debates on empiricism and intuitionism
late 19th-century British philosophy
influencedBy associationist psychology
utilitarianism
language English
mainSubject William Hamilton
notableFor defense of empiricist and associationist approaches to mind
systematic critique of a leading Scottish philosopher
publicationYear 1865
publisher Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer
relatedWork A System of Logic
Utilitarianism
subject Scottish philosophy
epistemology
metaphysics
philosophy
timePeriod 19th century

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Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind relatedWork An Examination of Sir William Hamilton’s Philosophy
An Examination of Sir William Hamilton’s Philosophy hasTitle An Examination of Sir William Hamilton’s Philosophy self-link
An Examination of Sir William Hamilton’s Philosophy alternativeName An Examination of Sir William Hamilton’s Philosophy
this entity surface form: Examination of Sir William Hamilton’s Philosophy