Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, I can’t shed much light on my education in philosophy. I was just a kid as they say. University of Pennsylvania, 1965 or so (I forget which year).

I cannot remember how many philosophy courses I took - one or two. I was a history major, but I am sure I took a course on the philosophy of science, so I may have also taken one on the philosophy of history as well. The only professor I remember was William Fontaine, and I remember him only because he was Black (i.e., I do not recall anything of his pedagogy).

So there's a blur of names: Nagel and Quine, but also Spengler, Ayer, Acton, Berlin, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Mill. I was too early for Rawls, but his brother was my law partner, so I heard of him before he got famous. I managed to circumvent the Germanic heavyweights: Kant, Hegel, Wittgenstein. I don’t recall reading Russell or Moore either, but I may have.

I do not recall any of these philosophers being referred to as “analytic” philosophers; the term is actually new to me, perhaps forgotten, perhaps never heard. I was not a big-picture philosophy student. I took each tract on its own merits and didn’t try to connect it with others. Maybe that was the prof’s job, but then, maybe he tried and I was ineducable. I’m still pretty much just sightseeing here…