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Harriet Taylor (2019)
Book Chapter
McCabe, H. (2019). Harriet Taylor. In Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women's WritingSpringer

Mill’s ‘Modern’ Radicalism Re-Examined: Joseph Persky’s The Political Economy of Progress (2019)
Journal Article
McCabe, H. (2020). Mill’s ‘Modern’ Radicalism Re-Examined: Joseph Persky’s The Political Economy of Progress. Utilitas, 32(2), 147-164. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0953820819000244

In The Political Economy of Progress, Joseph Persky argues for seeing J.S. Mill as a consistent ‘radical’ with much to offer modern ‘radical’ political discourse. In this article, I further this claim with consideration of Mill's political philosophy... Read More about Mill’s ‘Modern’ Radicalism Re-Examined: Joseph Persky’s The Political Economy of Progress.

Navigating by the North Star: the role of the 'ideal' in J.S. Mill's View of 'utopian' schemes and the possibilities of social transformation (2019)
Journal Article
Mccabe, H. (2019). Navigating by the North Star: the role of the 'ideal' in J.S. Mill's View of 'utopian' schemes and the possibilities of social transformation. Utilitas, 31(3), 291-309. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0953820819000074

The role of the 'ideal' in political philosophy is currently much discussed. These debates cast useful light on Mill's self-designation as 'under the general designation of Socialist'. Considering Mill's assessment of potential property-relations on... Read More about Navigating by the North Star: the role of the 'ideal' in J.S. Mill's View of 'utopian' schemes and the possibilities of social transformation.

John Stuart Mill on free speech (2018)
Book Chapter
Halliday, D., & McCabe, H. (2018). John Stuart Mill on free speech. In D. Coady, & J. Chase (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Applied Epistemology (71-87). Routledge

This chapter aims to draw the reader’s attention to Mill’s wider body of work concerning freedom of expression. Mill’s other writings augment the more famous text of On Liberty, in ways that give a better impression of how his position on free speech... Read More about John Stuart Mill on free speech.

John Stuart Mill and Fourierism: ‘association’, ‘friendly rivalry’ and distributive justice (2018)
Journal Article
McCabe, H. (2018). John Stuart Mill and Fourierism: ‘association’, ‘friendly rivalry’ and distributive justice. Global Intellectual History, 4(1), 35-61. https://doi.org/10.1080/23801883.2018.1435983

John Stuart Mill’s self-description as ‘under the general designation of Socialist’ has been under-explored. It is an important feature of something else often overlooked: the importance of the French context of Mill’s thought. This article focuses... Read More about John Stuart Mill and Fourierism: ‘association’, ‘friendly rivalry’ and distributive justice.

“Good housekeeping”? Re-assessing John Stuart Mill’s position on the gendered division of labour (2018)
Journal Article
McCabe, H. (2018). “Good housekeeping”? Re-assessing John Stuart Mill’s position on the gendered division of labour. History of Political Thought, 39(1), 135-155

This paper considers an oft-criticised passage of John Stuart Mill’s The Subjection of Women, arguing that Mill’s position is misunderstood. In this passage, Mill identifies a trilemma facing women in non-ideal circumstances. Two elements of this c... Read More about “Good housekeeping”? Re-assessing John Stuart Mill’s position on the gendered division of labour.

Harriet Taylor Mill (2016)
Book Chapter
McCabe, H. (2016). Harriet Taylor Mill. In C. Macleod, & D. E. Miller (Eds.), A Companion to Mill. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118736739.ch8

John Stuart Mill's System of Logic was a significant early work in the history of the philosophy of science. The goal of this essay is to characterize Mill's views concerning the central purposes of the sciences and the methods that give to scientifi... Read More about Harriet Taylor Mill.

John Stuart Mill, utility and the family: attacking ‘the citadel of the enemy’ (2015)
Journal Article
McCabe, H. (2015). John Stuart Mill, utility and the family: attacking ‘the citadel of the enemy’. Revue Internationale de Philosophie, 272(2),

John Stuart Mill’s commitment to female equality has generally been acknowledged as positive, but certain passages have been damned as anti-feminist or myopic regarding the reality of patriarchy, and used as sticks with which to beat both Mill’s theo... Read More about John Stuart Mill, utility and the family: attacking ‘the citadel of the enemy’.

John Stuart Mill's philosophy of persuasion (2014)
Journal Article
McCabe, H. (2014). John Stuart Mill's philosophy of persuasion. Informal Logic, 34(1), https://doi.org/10.22329/il.v34i1.3869

In his youth, John Stuart Mill followed his father’s philosophy of persuasion but, in 1830, Mill adopted a new philosophy of persuasion, trying to lead people incrementally towards the truth from their original stand-points rather than engage them an... Read More about John Stuart Mill's philosophy of persuasion.