Key Analytic Philosophers

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By Dr. Safaruk Chowdhury

In Chronological Order

*Bernard Bolzano (1781-1848) Czech

*Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) German

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) British

George Edward Moore (1873-1958) British (known as G. E. Moore)

Otto Neurath (1882-1945) Austrian

Moritz Schlick (1882-1936) German

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) Austrian/British

Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970) German/ American

Hans Reichenbach (1891-1953) German/ American

Gilbert Ryle (1900-1976) British

Karl Popper (1902-1994) Austrian/British

*Alfred Tarski (1902-1983) Polish/ American

Carl Hempel (1905-1997) German/ American

*Kurt Godel (1906-1978) Austrian/ American

Nelson Goodman (1906-1998) American

Willard Van Orman Quine (1908-2000) American (known as W. V. Quine or V. O. Quine)

Charles Leslie Stevenson (1908-1979) American (known as or C. L. Stevenson)

Max Black (1909-1988) Russian/British/American

Alfred Jules Ayer (1910-1989) British (known as A. J. Ayer)

John Austin (1911-1960) British (J. L. Austin)

Norman Malcolm (1911-1990) American

Wilfrid Sellars (1912-1989) American

*Alan Turing (1912-1954) British

Herbert Paul Grice (1913-1988) British (known as Paul Grice)

Roderick Chisholm (1916-1999) American

Donald Davidson (1917-2003) American

Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe (1919-2001) British (known as G. E. M. Anscombe)

Richard Mervyn Hare (1919-2002) British (known as R. M. Hare)

Peter Frederick Strawson (1919-2006) British (known as P.F. Strawson)

John Jamieson Carswell Smart 1920 Australian (known as J. J. C. Smart)

Philippa Foot (1920-2010) British

Ruth Barcan Marcus (1921-2012) American

John Rawls (1921-2002) American

Thomas Kuhn (1922-1996) American

Michael Dummett (1925-2011) British

David Malet Armstrong (1926-2014) Australian (known as D. M. Armstrong)

Stanley Cavell (1926-2018) American

Hilary Putnam (1926-2016) American

*Noam Chomsky (1928-present) American

Keith Donnellan 1931-2015) American

Richard Rorty (1931-2007) American

Alvin Plantinga (1932-present) American

John Searle (1932-present) American

Jaegwon Kim (1934-2019) Korean/ American

Thomas Nagel (1937-present) American

Robert Nozick (1938-2002) American

Saul Kripke (1940-present) American

Robert Stalnaker 1940-present) American

David Lewis (1941-2001) American

Peter Singer (1946-present) Australian

* Names marked with an asterisk(*) indicate the dispute among historians of philosophy regarding whether or not they are not to be included as analytic philosophers even if they have written influential works within their respective academic field.