Origins of Analytic Philosophy

by Delbert Reed

"Analytic philosophy has been the dominant philosophical perspective in the English-speaking world in the second half of the twentieth century. Grounded in the logical advances of Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell, analytic philosophy is characterized by logical precision, technical sophistication and expositional clarity. Recent work in the history of early analytic philosophy has shown that in a large part it developed in reaction against the critical thought of the great German philosopher Immanuel Kant. While the relationship between Kant and other major figures in early analytic philosophy - such as Russell, G.E. Moore and Rudolf Carnap - has been the subject of full length studies, no such work yet exists on the relationship between Kant and Frege." "The Origins of Analytic Philosophy: Kant and Frege addresses this gap in our understanding of the origins of early analytic philosophy. Its concern is to chart the nature and significance of Frege's break with Kant over the question