Analytic Philosophy of Language: From First Philosophy to Foundations of Linguistic Science The Initial Analytic Turn to Logic and Language In 1945, the turn to logic and language that initiated the analytic tradition in philosophy was sixty six years old. PDF | On Aug 13, 1989, Barry Smith published ON THE ORIGINS OF ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate Over the last two decades, its influence has also been steadily growing in the non-English-speaking world. Analytic philosophy is now generally seen as the dominant philosophical tradition in the English-speaking world, and has been so from at least the middle of the twentieth century. One sign of this is the proliferation of societies for analytic philosophy around the world. This is an instructor’s manual with student exercises for the Analytic Philosophy and Philosophy of Language course. ‘analytic philosophy’ any longer; as Frege once remarked, the wider the extension of a term, the less content it has (1884, § 29). This manual begins It is intended to assist the instructor in teaching the subject to students for whom English is a second language. The tradition was founded in 1879 when Gottlob Wanting to restrict the label to the early phase of the tradition, some have argued that analytic philosophy had exhausted itself by the 1970s (at the latest), and that we are now in a ‘post-analytic’ age. Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers.