Handbook

This subject will investigate the German and English roots of analytic philosophy. It examines the idealist philosophies of Kant and Hegel and asks how – in importantly different ways –  these relate to and oppose the kind of realism defended by analytic philosophers at the turn of the 20th century – Frege, Russell and the early Wittgenstein. It concludes by looking at work of the later Wittgenstein, considering to what extent it breaks faith with or develops themes in his earliest writings.