Analytic “Schools”

School	Representative Figures	Critique of Traditional Philosophy	True Function of Philosophy	Analytic Method
Common Sense Realism	Moore Russell	Too detached from common sense	Make explicit and get deeper understanding of what we know	Analyze the sense of Common Sense Propositions
Logical Atomism	Russell Wittgenstein	Misled by surface grammatical structure of ordinary language	Reveal the underlying structure of reality	Use new logic to get at deep logical structure of sentences
Logical Positivism	Ayer Carnap	Traditional philosophical claims are literally nonsense	Sort statements into the empirically meaningful, the tautological, and the nonsensical	Apply the verification principle to statements, test for tautologies
Ordinary Language Philosophy	Wittgenstein Austin	Traditional philosophical problems are mere pseudo-problems that result from misuse of language	Dissolve philosophical problems by bringing words back to their ordinary use	Elaborate the use of ordinary language expressions and their role in various ‘forms of life’
Logico-Linguistic Metaphysics	Quine Davidson Sellars	Metaphysically Extravagant Theorizing	Weigh common sense manifest image of world against scientific image	Make the commitments of folk theories and language explicit and prime them for comparison to scientific theories

Common Claims:

1. Traditional Philosophy is too detached from common sense and ordinary language:

2. Traditional Philosophy is overly speculative and unscientific:

3. Traditional philosophy misuses language in some way:

4. We can use new methods to solve traditional philosophical problems:

5. Traditional philosophical problems must be rejected/dissolved: