Auguste Comte and John Stuart Mill on Sexual Equality _Vincent Guillin

Auguste Comte and John Stuart Mill on Sexual Equality
Historical Methodological and Philosophical Issues
Vincent Guillin
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Pages 385

Introductory Note ix

Acknowledgements xi

Note on References xiii

Introduction  1

1. Comte and Mill on Sexual Equality: Context and Problems  5

2. Th e Female Brain and the Subjection of Women: Biology,

Phrenology and Sexual Equality 35

3. The Phrenological Controversy  93

4. The Explanation of Moral Phenomena: Comte and Mill

on the Architectonics of the Moral Sciences  149

5. A Never Ending Subjection? Comte, Mill, and

the Sociological Argument against Sexual Equality 191

6. Th e Ethological Fiasco: Th e Methodological Shortcomings

of the Millian Science of the Formation of Character 232

7. How to Discover One’s Nature: Mill’s Argument

for Emancipation in the Subjection of Women 283

Conclusion 326

Appendix: Comtean Studies (1993–2008) 335

Bibliography 352

Index 363