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|Brief=a 19th century British philosopher, political economist and civil servant. Mill's His writings on scientific change cover a wide range of topics ranging from the nature of scientific reasoning to theory-ladenness and scientific progress|Summary=Although Mill's writings primarily covered topics unrelated to science and scientific change, his he was a passionate interlocutor in the mid-19th century debates on science. Developing his notions mostly as a response to 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 greater social context. His principal work on these ideas is presented in his 1843 book "A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive".