<P> Modern analytical empiricism (...) differs from that of Locke, Berkeley, and Hume by its incorporation of mathematics and its development of a powerful logical technique . It is thus able, in regard to certain problems, to achieve definite answers, which have the quality of science rather than of philosophy . It has the advantage, in comparison with the philosophies of the system - builders, of being able to tackle its problems one at a time, instead of having to invent at one stroke a block theory of the whole universe . Its methods, in this respect, resemble those of science . </P> <P> In the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Scandinavia, the majority of university philosophy departments today identify themselves as "analytic" departments . Analytic philosophy is often understood in contrast to other philosophical traditions, most notably continental philosophies such as existentialism and phenomenology, and also Thomism and Marxism . </P> <P> British idealism, as taught by philosophers such as F.H. Bradley (1846--1924) and Thomas Hill Green (1836--1882), dominated English philosophy in the late 19th century . With reference to this intellectual basis the initiators of analytic philosophy, G.E. Moore and Bertrand Russell, articulated early analytic philosophy . </P> <P> Since its beginning, a basic goal of analytic philosophy has been conceptual clarity, in the name of which Moore and Russell rejected Hegelianism for being obscure--see for example Moore's "A Defence of Common Sense" and Russell's critique of the doctrine of internal relations . Inspired by developments in modern logic, the early Russell claimed that the problems of philosophy can be solved by showing the simple constituents of complex notions . An important aspect of British idealism was logical holism--the opinion that there are aspects of the world that can be known only by knowing the whole world . This is closely related to the opinion that relations between items are internal relations, that is, properties of the nature of those items . Russell, along with Wittgenstein, in response promulgated logical atomism and the doctrine of external relations--the belief that the world consists of independent facts . </P>

Who founded the philosophical school known as analytic philosophy