TY - BOOK AU - Guillin,Vincent TI - The Issue of Gender Equality in the Comte-Mill Correspondence PY - 2007///. N1 - 13 N2 - A. Comte and J.-S. Mill shared a common belief in the necessary « scientificisation » of politics. However, this consensus conceals a real disagreement as to the real content to be given to this « scientificisation ». The issue of the subjection of women sheds a new light on the nature of this disagreement. Firstly, I will show how the role Comte ascribed to the consideration of biological factors in sociological explanations is inconsistent with the received view according to which he is to be regarded as the founding father of an autonomous sociology. Secondly, I will analyze the assumptions on which Millian methodology rests and try to show that its environmentalist bias is no reason to give it up UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-archives-de-philosophie-2007-1-page-57?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -