Herbert Spencer [electronic resource] : legacies / edited by Mark Francis and Michael W. Taylor.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction / Mark Francis -- 2. The method of nature : Herbert Spencer and the education of the adaptive mind / Stephen Tomlinson -- 3. Herbert Spencer : nineteenth-century politics and twentieth-century individualism / Michael W. Taylor -- 4. Herbert Spencer's sociological legacy / Jonathan H. Turner -- 5. Containing multitudes : Herbert Spencer, organisms social and orders of individuality / James Elwick -- 6. Herbert Spencer, biology, and the social sciences in Britain / Chris Renwick -- 7. Spencer and the moral philosophers : Mill, Sidgwick, Moore / John Skorupski -- 8. The problem with star dust : Spencer's psychology and William James / Mark Francis -- 9. Spencer, cognition, fiction / Vanessa L. Ryan -- 10. Herbert Spencer and Lamarckism / Peter J. Bowler -- 11. Spencer's British disciples / Bernard Lightman.