James Mill’s “Analysis of the Phenomena of…

James Mill’s “Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind,” published in 1829, is a milestone in the field of psychology.

The most important philosophical work of the Scottish historian, economist, political theorist, and philosopher, it provides the psychological basis for the ethics required by utilitarianism by demonstrating how the principles of association at work in the mind operate on the materials generated by sense experience to produce new, or derived, mental phenomena.