Collingwood (1889-1943)...

Collingwood (1889-1943), who was concerned to combat both Moorean philosophy and the logical positivism of A. J. Ayer (1910-89).[^27] All of this is part of the complex story that is the history of twentieth-century philosophical analysis.

At a time when the history of analytic philosophy has come of age, I hope that the papers brought together in the present volume will provide the basis for further investigations of philosophical analysis and the relationships between the analytic and phenomenological traditions.

At a time, too, when philosophical methodology is once again high on the agenda, I also hope that the volume will encourage greater self-consciousness about methodology and appreciation of the varieties of analysis and of the value of understanding the historical roots of the conceptions and methods that we all too often take for granted.[^28] Previous…