Contemporary analytic philosophers feminist and nonfeminist can be characterized roughly as follows they consider some of Frege Russell Moore Wittgenstein and the Logical Positivists to be their intellectual ancestors they tend to prize explicit argumentation and the literal precise and clear use of language they often value the roles of philosophy of language epistemology and logic and they typically view their stock of philosophical concepts methods and assumptions to be a consistent with their Modern European heritage and b in contrast with methods originating in twentiethcentury continental Europe most recently those having names beginning with ‘post’ poststructuralism and postmodernism broadly conceived Of course each strand of midtwentiethcentury “classic” analytic philosophy has changed greatly Many central dogmas have been undermined and nonfeminists and feminists alike have “naturalized” “socialized” and otherwise modulated the earlier more abstract and highly normative enterprises and doctrines However regardless of the extent of the evolution of “analytic philosophy” the degree to which methodological boundaries are blurred today and the fruitfulness of intersections among methods a number of feminist and nonfeminist philosophers continue to think of themselves in the historical trajectory of analytic philosophy and find the tradition valuable They claim the term ‘analytic philosopher’ for themselves even if some others might find the term ‘postanalytic’ more appropriate2