John Stuart Mill's A System of Logic is a foundational work in the philosophy of science, meticulously outlining inductive reasoning and its application to scientific inquiry. It significantly influenced the development of empiricism and the methodology of social sciences in the 19th century.
Sources for John Stuart Mill — A System of Logic
John Stuart Mill — A System of Logic in Philosophy of Science
Held in the Philosophy of Science chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- Francis Bacon — Novum Organum (1620)
- René Descartes — Discourse on Method (1637)
- David Hume — An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748)
- Bertrand Russell — The Problems of Philosophy (1912)
- William Whewell — The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences (1840)
- Henri Poincaré — Science and Hypothesis (1902)
- Auguste Comte — The Positive Philosophy (1830)
- Heinrich Hertz — The Principles of Mechanics (1899)