Analytic philosophy
Philosophical problems are solved by clear analysis of language and logic
Key ideas
- The logic of Frege and Russell as a tool of philosophy
- Many problems are confusions of language
- Clarity and rigour of argument
- Early and late Wittgenstein: language as a picture of the world and as a game
Key thinkers
- Gottlob Frege — German logician and mathematician, 1848–1925
- Bertrand Russell — British philosopher, logician and public intellectual, 1872–1970
- Ludwig Wittgenstein — Austrian-British philosopher, 1889–1951
- Karl Popper — Austrian-British philosopher, 1902–1994
Grew out of
- British empiricism c. 1620 – 1780 · Europe
What grew out of it
- Logical positivism c. 1924 – 1960 · Europe
Meanwhile elsewhere
- Confucianism Asia
- Buddhist philosophy Asia
- Taoism Asia
- Nyaya Asia
- Madhyamaka Asia
- Yogachara Asia
- Chan and Zen Asia
- Advaita Vedanta Asia
- Kalam Middle East
- Neo-Confucianism Asia
- Russian religious philosophy Eastern Europe & Russia
- Pragmatism Americas
- Russian cosmism Eastern Europe & Russia
- Kyoto School Asia
- Négritude Africa