He is well known for debating the existence of God with Bertrand Russell in a celebrated 1948 BBC broadcast ; the following year he debated logical positivism and the meaningfulness of religious language with his friend the analytic philosopher A. J. Ayer.

He often praised the analytic reasoning of Thales of Miletus, an early Greek philosopher, for his analysis of the meaning of the term " landscaping ".

" An exception is analytic philosopher John Searle, who called it an incorrect assumption which produces false dichotomies.

This is in contrast with the methods found in analytic philosophy, whereby some say a philosopher will sometimes begin by appealing to his or her intuitions on an issue and then form an argument with those intuitions as premises.

Derrida has often been criticized by academics, such as the analytic philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine.

I sometimes felt, paradoxically, closer to Austin analytic philosopher than to a certain Continental tradition from which Searle, on the contrary, has inherited numerous gestures and a logic I try to deconstruct.

Alvin Carl Plantinga ( born November 15, 1932 ) is an American analytic philosopher, the John A. O ' Brien Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame and the inaugural holder of the Jellema Chair in Philosophy at Calvin College.

* Hilary Putnam, an American analytic philosopher

In a 1977 response to analytic philosopher John Searle, Jacques Derrida mentioned the distinction as " rather laborious and problematical ".

The British philosopher and theorist of conceptual art Peter Osborne suggests that among the many factors that influenced the gravitation toward language-based art, of vital importance for conceptualism was the turn to linguistic theories of meaning in both Anglo-American analytic philosophy, and structuralist and post structuralist Continental philosophy during the middle of the twentieth century.

Max Black ( 24 February 1909 – 27 August 1988 ) was a British-American philosopher, who was a leading influential figure in analytic philosophy in the first half of the twentieth century.

Hart's method combined the careful analysis of twentieth-century analytic philosophy with the jurisprudential tradition of Jeremy Bentham, the great English legal, political, and moral philosopher.

Even though Lewis set out his ideas at length, can be seen as both a late pragmatist and an early analytic philosopher, and had students of the calibre of Brand Blanshard, Nelson Goodman, and Roderick Chisholm, his reputation declined after WWII, and the secondary literature on Lewis during the second half of the 20th century is less than imposing.

* Brian Leftow – eminent theistic and analytic philosopher.

Up until that time MacIntyre had been a relatively influential analytic philosopher of a Marxist bent whose inquiries into moral philosophy had been conducted in a “ piecemeal way, focusing first on this problem and then on that, in a mode characteristic of much analytic philosophy .” However, after reading the works of Thomas Kuhn and Imre Lakatos on philosophy of science and epistemology MacIntyre was inspired to change the entire direction of his thought, tearing up the manuscript he had been working on and deciding to view the problems of modern moral and political philosophy “ not from the standpoint of liberal modernity, but instead from the standpoint of ... Aristotelian moral and political practice .”

Charles Leslie Stevenson ( June 27, 1908 in Cincinnati, Ohio – March 14, 1979 in Bennington, Vermont ) was an American analytic philosopher best known for his work in ethics and aesthetics.

" An analytic philosopher, Stevenson suggested in his 1937 essay " The Emotive Meaning of Ethical Terms " that any ethical theory should explain three things: that intelligent disagreement can occur over moral questions, that moral terms like good are " magnetic " in encouraging action, and that the scientific method is insufficient for verifying moral claims.

* Paul Moser ( 1979 ), noted analytic philosopher

* 5 January – G. E. M. Anscombe, analytic philosopher ( born 1919 ).

* 18 March-G. E. M. Anscombe, analytic philosopher ( died 2001 ).

* Frank Sibley ( philosopher ) ( 1923 – 1996 ), British analytic philosopher and aesthetician

* Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind, a work of 20th century analytic philosopher Wilfrid Sellars

Pragmatist Rorty claimed that Heidegger's approach to philosophy in the first half of his career has much in common with that of the latter-day Ludwig Wittgenstein, a significant figure in analytic philosophy.

Though Derrida addressed the American Philosophical Association at least on one occasion in 1988, and was highly regarded by some contemporary philosophers like Richard Rorty, Alexander Nehamas, and Stanley Cavell, his work has been regarded by other analytic philosophers, such as John Searle and Willard Van Orman Quine, as pseudophilosophy or sophistry.

Rorty's argument about the purpose and value of philosophy in Rorty ,( 2003 ), “ A pragmatist view of contemporary analytic philosophy ”, in Egginton, W. and Sandbothe, M. ( Eds ), The Pragmatic Turn in Philosophy, Suny Press, New York, NY.

According to Rorty, who later disassociated himself from linguistic philosophy and analytic philosophy generally, the phrase " the linguistic turn " originated with philosopher Gustav Bergmann.

Rewald's approach to historical data was narrative rather than analytic, and beyond this point he believed it would be sufficient to " let the sources speak for themselves.

The group considered themselves logical positivists because they believed all knowledge is either derived through experience or arrived at through analytic statements, and they adopted the predicate logic of Frege, as well as the early work of Ludwig Wittgenstein ( 1889 – 1951 ) as foundations to their work.

Znaniecki believed analytic induction was a new process for conducting social research that is capable of universal and precise results.

Zerachiah was not only a thorough Talmudist of great erudition, with an analytic and synthetic mind, but he was also deeply versed in Arabic literature, in philosophy, and in astronomy, and was, also, a gifted poet, combining elegance of style with elevation of sentiment.

Willard Van Orman Quine criticized the distinction between analytic and synthetic statements and the reduction of meaningful statements to immediate experience.

Whitehead supervised the doctoral dissertations of Bertrand Russell and Willard Van Orman Quine, thus influencing logic and virtually all of analytic philosophy.

Van Schooten's 1649 Latin translation of and commentary on Descartes ' Géométrie was valuable in that it made the work comprensible to the broader mathematical community, and thus was responsible for the spread of analytic geometry to the world.

Van Parijs's work is sometimes associated with the September Group of analytic Marxism, though he is not himself a committed Marxist.

In addition to publishing some landmark papers, Carleson has also published two books: First, an influential book on potential theory, " Selected Problems on Exceptional Sets " ( Van Nostrand, 1967 ), and second a book on the iteration of analytic functions, Complex Dynamics ( Springer, 1993, in collaboration with T. W. Gamelin ).

Quine's famous rejection of the analytic / synthetic distinction.

This idea is problematic for the analytic-synthetic distinction because ( in Quine's view ) such a distinction supposes that some facts are true of language alone, but if conceptual scheme is as open to revision as synthetic content, then there can be no plausible distinction between framework and content, hence no distinction between the analytic and the synthetic.

In this directly therapeutic form, the criticism is very similar to psychoanalysis itself, closely following the analytic interpretive process discussed in Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams and other works.

In the 1950s, Claude Lévi-Strauss first adapted this technique of language analysis to analytic myth criticism.

Behavior analysts generally viewed the criticism as largely off point ( for a behavior analytic response to Chomsky, see MacCorquodale ( 1970 ), On Chomsky's Review Of Skinner's Verbal Behavior ), but it is undeniable that psychology turned its attention elsewhere and the review was very influential in helping to produce the rise of cognitive psychology.

One is the analytic-synthetic distinction between analytic truths and synthetic truths, explained by Quine as truths grounded only in meanings and independent of facts, and truths grounded in facts.