
Prof. Dr.
Hans-Johann
Glock
Chairholder
Telephone:
+41 44 634 51 57
glock@philos.uzh.ch
Address
Office
Office hours
Teaching
Research
Inaugural Lecture
Publications (selection)
Curriculum Vitae
Editorial Board
Memberships
Address
Universität Zürich
Philosophisches Seminar
Zürichbergstrasse 43
CH-8044 Zürich
Switzerland
Office
Office hours
Tuesday, 15:00 - 16:00, Zürichbergstrasse 43, 1. floor, room 117 (Please make an appointment: 044 634 45 31 or philsem@philos.uzh.ch).
Teaching
Research
Research intrests
- Philosophy of Mind
- Philosophy of Language
- History of Analytic Philosophy
- Wittgenstein
Completed research projects
- "What is Analytic Philosophy?"
Current Research
- "Concepts"
- "Animal Minds"
- "Normativity of Language"
Inaugural Lecture
Inaugural lecture "Animal Minds: Conceptual Problems" at the University of Zurich, 02.04.2007
Publications (selection)
Zurich Open Repository and Archive (ZORA)
![]() | What is Analytic Philosophy? (Cambridge University Press 2008). |
![]() | La mente de los animales: problemas conceptuales (KRK Ediciones 2009). ISBN-978-84-8367-140-5
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![]() | (Ed. with John Hyman) Wittgenstein and Analytic Philosophy (Oxford University Press 2009). |
![]() | Quine and Davidson on Language, Thought and Reality (Cambridge University Press 2003). |
![]() | A Wittgenstein dictionary (Blackwell 1996). |
![]() | (Ed.) Strawson and Kant (Oxford University Press 2003). |
![]() | (Ed.) Wittgenstein: a critical reader (Blackwell 2001). |
| "Can Animals Act For Reasons?", Inquiry 2009 (52), 232-254. | |
| "Concepts: where subjectivism goes wrong", Philosophy 2009 (84):5-29. | |
| "Analytic philosophy and history: a mismatch?", Mind 2009 117(468):867-897. | |
| "Truth in the Tractatus", Synthèse 2006 (148):345-368. | |
| "Begriffliche Probleme und das Problem der Begriffe", in D. Perler & M. Wild (eds.) Der Geist der Tiere (Suhrkamp 2005), 153-187. |
Curriculum Vitae
| from 2009 |
President Philosophische Gesellschaft Zürich |
| since 2006 |
University of Zurich, Philosophisches Seminar: Ordinarius, Chair of Theoretical Philosophy of Zurich, Philosophical Seminar: Ordinarius, Lehrstuhl of Theoretical Philosphy Visiting Professor, University of Reading, UK |
| 1997 - 2000 |
Visiting Professor, Queen's University, Kanada |
| 1998 - 2000, 2004 | Research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung at the University of Bielefeld |
| 1991 - 2006 | University of Reading, Department of Philosophy: Lecturer (1991), Reader (1997), Professor of Philosophy (2003) |
| 1990 - 1991 | Junior Research Fellow am St. John's College, Oxford |
| 1981 - 1990 |
Studies: Philosophy, Linguistics und Mathematics at Tübingen, FU Berlin and Oxford. |
Editorial Board
- Ratio, Wittgenstein Studies
Memberships
- Aristotelian Society
- Gesellschaft für Analytische Philosophie
- UK Kant Society
- Deutsche Ludwig Wittgenstein Gesellschaft
- Philosophische Gesellschaft Zürich







