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|Brief=a 19th century British philosopher, political economist and civil servant. Mill's writings on scientific change cover a wide range of topics ranging from gender equality nature of scientific reasoning to theory-ladenness and democracy scientific progress.|Summary=Although Mill's writings primarily covered topics unrelated to science and scientific change, his was a passionate interlocutor in the mid-19th century debates on science. Developing his notions mostly as a response to inductive other philosophers, Mill wrote on the primacy of induction in scientific reasoning , advocated for the use of logic in scientific justification instead of the study of history, and construed science as being a part of the social context. His principal work on these ideas is presented in his 1843 book "A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and scientific progressInductive".
|Historical Context=Mill was an active participant in the debates surrounding epistemology of science in the mid-19th century. In order to properly contextualize Mill’s contributions, it is important to understand some of the major ideas that preceded him, and the most topical issues of his day.