Vincent Guillin is currently Assistant Professor at the Collège de France in Paris, for the Chair of the Philosophy of Life Science. After graduating from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, he completed a Ph.D. in history and philosophy of science at the London School of Economics in 2006. He is working at the intersection of philosophy of science, political philosophy and history of science, especially on the various ways scientific theories have informed and are informing projects of social reforms and public policies. He is also interested in the early reception of John Stuart Mill's writings and ideas in France. Most recently, he has co-edited, together with Anne Fagot-Largeault, Frédéric Worms and Arnauld François, a special issue of Annales Bergsoniennes (Paris, PUF, 2008) on Henri Bergson's Evolution creatrice.

• Acknowledgments AbbreviationsIntroduction 1. Comte and Mill on Sexual Equality: Context and Problems2. The Female Brain and the Subjection of Women: Biology, Phrenology and Sexual Equality3. The Phrenological Controversy4. The Explanation of Moral Phenomena: Comte and Mill on the Architectonics of the Moral Sciences5. A Never Ending Subjection? Comte, Mill, and the Sociological Argument against Sexual Equality 6. The Ethological Fiasco: The Methodological Shortcomings of the Millian Science of the Formation of Character 7. How To Discover One’s Nature: Mill’s Argument for Emancipation in the Subjection of WomenConclusion Appendix: Comtean Studies, 1993-2000BibliographyIndex

Ce qui frappe aussi dans ce livre, c’est non seulement la précision de l’information, mais le soin méticuleux apporté à déconstruire et reconstruire les argumentations et à croiser les thèses particulières sur la question féminine avec celles des œuvres majeures des deux philosophes. L’ouvrage présente donc de multiples intérêts qui le recommandent certes à la lecture des spécialistes de comte, de mill ou des études de genre, mais aussi de tous ceux qui apprécient les travaux bien documentés et la clarté et la rigueur des exposés dûment ordonnés.Annie Petit, Revue philosophique, n° 1, 2012, pp. 109-111