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Collected Works of John Stuart Mill Vol. 30: Writings on India John M. Robson, Martin Moir and Zawahir Moir, eds. Introduction by Martin Moir Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990, pp. lvii, 336

could not have offered readers a clear understanding of realism in the course of applying it to Marxian and Weberian theory. A second drawback is that it is unclear who Gilbert understands his audience to be. If he construes his audience to consist of moral philosophers then he could have presumed a great deal more knowledge than he did and shortened the first part of the book from the nearly 200 pages it now occupies. Conversely, if Gilbert intended to direct his explanation to political scientists and sociologists, whom he intermittently mentions, he should have, first, presumed far less knowledge of the philosophical debates that engage realists and relativists. Second, he should have examined more carefully the present type of commitment in these disciplines to empiricism and metaethical relativism. More analysis of the present utilization of Weberian concepts, game theory and systems analysis would have more clearly established the role of empiricism in contemporary social science. Furthermore, Gilbert should have avoided postwar notions such as "brute facts" and the empiricist views that "the meaning of a term is reduced to whatever measures it" (348). By reducing empirical political science to such terms, Gilbert makes the job of criticizing empiricism too easy. The impact of post-positivism and moral realism has yet to be felt in the social sciences. The insights of this book suggest that interpretations and applications of moral realism that are more clearly directed at a social science audience are needed.