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"The past few decades have seen considerable interest in the history of analytic philosophy. As this field has developed important and complex new questions have emerged about the very nature of analytic philosophy itself, with assumptions being challenged and new research paradigms emerging. In this outstanding collection an international team of contributors examine these questions and debates and explore the idea of analysis; the status of logic vis-áa-vis other fields of knowledge, the nature of the proposition and its linguistic expression; the logical act of judgment, the distinction between external and internal relations; the nature of logical categories, the possibility of category mistakes and the demarcation of sense and nonsense. Several of the chapters shed light on the interconnections and Wittgenstein and Ramsey. Other chapters examine the interaction and impingement of analytic philosophy on other philosophical traditions, including and vice versa Frege and the mathematician Weierstrass, Wittgenstein and Schopenhauer, Wittgenstein and Bradley, Russell and the North American pragmatists, Russell and the Neo-Kantians, Wittgenstein and Heidegger, and Heidegger and Ryle. Also explored are Russell's conception of the judging subject, Wittgenstein's discussion of rule following, Frege's conception of the logical categories, and Wittgenstein's conception of nonsense. The volume also includes a book review by Gilbert Ryle, published in volume form here for the first time, that sheds important light on the reception of Frege's Philosophy in the Anglophone philosophy. Early Analytic Philosophy: Origins and Transformations will be of great interest to those studying and researching the history of twentieth-century philosophy, analytic philosophy, and the philosophy of language and logic"--