Was Russell an Analytical Philosopher?

Prolegomena to any Future History of Analytic Philosophy

“…In order to show that these views fail to define analytic philosophy, one need only demonstrate, for each view, that either there is at least one philosopher who accepts it and clearly is not a member of the analytic school or there is at least one philosopher who does not accept it and clearly is a member of the analytic school. Hacker (1998, 4-14), quite successfully in my opinion, does this for all of these traditional ''marks'' of analytic philosophy, while others (for example, Monk 1997 andHylton 1998) have done so for one or another of them. In the face of the inadequacy of these traditional definitions, contemporary philosophers have proposed new ones.…”

“…We must include in our batch of samples from which we must distill, as it were, the essence of analytic philosophy not only contemporary representatives of the analytic school but also historical representatives. Thus it is not surprising that, as the need for an adequate characterization of analytic philosophy has increased, so have the number of publications on its history (for example , Corrado 1975;Baker and Hacker 1984;Cohen 1986;Hylton 1990;Charlton 1991;Coffa 1991;Griffin 1991;Dummett 1993;Clarke 1997;Fllesdal 1997;Monk 1997;Hacker 1997Hacker , 1998Capaldi 2000;Stroll 2000;Hanna 2001;Soames 2003; and others).…”

Analytic theology and contemporary inquiry

“…The most commonly cited definition in philosophical literature is Michael Dummett's claim that analytic thought is marked by following Frege in supposing, 'first, that a philosophical account of thought can be attained through a philosophical account of language, and, secondly, that a comprehensive account can only be so attained' 20 ; but critics point out that, on these terms, neither the work of Bertrand Russell nor the majority of the philosophy done after 1960 or so would count as analytic. 21 Beyond attempts at a concrete definition of this kind, philosophers are willing to characterize the movement by way of a broad ethos -Robert Brandom speaks of a neat credo running 'faith in reasoned argument, hope for reasoned agreement, and clarity of reasoned expression (and the greatest of these is clarity)' 22 but critics again point out that those attributes cut across different movements so that, on these terms, it would make more sense to speak of an analytic approach to phenomenology or hermeneutics than of a distinctive analytic philosophy. 23 A clear conception of analytic thought that eases difficulties within the theological sphere is not to be found amongst the philosophers.…”

Vorprung durch Logik: The German Analytic Tradition

“…Yet others, like Ray Monk (1997; see also Hacker 1997, 56) take the term 'analytic' literally, namely as referring to a decomposition of complex phenomena into simpler constituents. What distinguishes modern analytic philosophy from the ham-fisted mental analysis of the British empiricists is that it employs sophisticated logical techniques to identify the structures and components of propositions.…”