Critica empirismului lui John Stuart Mill în opera filosofică a lui P. P. Negulescu
Criticism of John Stuart Mill’s Empiricism in the Philosophical Work of P. P. Negulescu

Summary/Abstract: The Romanian philosopher P.P. Negulescu, in his work “Critique of Apriorism and Empiricism”, published in 1892, undertakes a critique of Kantian apriorism and the radical empiricism of John St. Mill. The present study analyses the criticism of Mill’s phenomenalism and reconstructs the main objections formulated by Negulescu starting from some of the philosophers with authority in that time, such as Herbert Spencer. Negulescu proposes the distinction between problems of fact and problems of justification in the analysis of knowledge and subjects Mill’s methodological phenomenalism, especially the problem of a belief in an external world, discussed by him in the book on Hamilton, to a severe critique, open to current problematizations, such as the distinction between conceivability and epistemic acceptability.

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