Which countries besides Britain and the United States made important contributions to analytic philosophy?

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Beyond Great Britain and the United States, several other regions have made significant contributions to analytic philosophy. Notably, Australia, New Zealand, and the countries of Scandinavia have been recognized for their important work in the field.1

In Scandinavia, for instance, the Swedish philosopher Axel Hägerström founded the Uppsala school, which emphasized conceptual analysis and rejected metaphysical suppositions.2

Furthermore, the development of logical positivism in the 1920s was driven by the Vienna Circle—a group of intellectuals based in Austria—and a cognate group in Berlin, Germany. While many members of these groups later emigrated to the United States and Britain due to the political climate of the 1930s, their foundational work in scientific methodology and the logical analysis of language remains a cornerstone of the analytic tradition.345