Hans-Johann Glock

Hans-Johann Glock, Prof. em. Dr.

Senior Advisor National Centre for Competence in Research (NCCR) Evolving Language
Associate Member of the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution (ISLE)

Phone: +41 44 634 51 57
Address: UZH, Philosophisches Seminar, Zürichbergstrasse 43, CH-8044 Zürich
Room number: ZUP-G-225

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Research

Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy of Language
History of Analytic Philosophy
Wittgenstein
Concepts
Animal Minds
Normativity of Language

Curriculum vitae

Since 2020	Senior Advisor, National Centre for Competence in Research (NCCR) Evolving Language Associate Member of the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution (ISLE), University of Zürich.
2006 – 2025	Ordinarius, Chair of Theoretical Philosophy of Zurich, Department of Philosophy, University of Zurich
2023	Visiting Professor, Université de Luxembourg
2023	Fellow of the Institute of Philosophy KU Leuwen
02/2017 – 01/2021	Head of Department, Department of Philosophy, UZH
2014	Research Award Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
2009 – 2014	President Philosophische Gesellschaft Zürich
2007 – 2017	Visiting Professor, University of Reading, UK
1997 - 2000	Visiting Professor, Queen's University, Kanada Hugh-Le May Research Fellow, Rhodes University, Südafrika
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. M. A. Berlin 1986; D.phil. Oxford 1990

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Editorial Board

Grazer Philosophische Studien, Nordic Wittgenstein Review, Wittgenstein Studies, Teorema, Dokos, Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung, Palgrave Series “History of Analytic Philosophy”.

Editorial Board of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy for the Twentieth Century Philosophy section.

Memberships

Aristotelian Society
Gesellschaft für Analytische Philosophie
UK Kant Society
Deutsche Ludwig Wittgenstein Gesellschaft
Philosophische Gesellschaft Zürich

Teaching

Vorlesungsverzeichnis

V-Nr	Course	Start / End	Date	Lecturers
3691	Metaphysik (Glock) (Fortsetzung aus FS25, nicht separat buchbar) 06ST160-016f	from 19.09.2025 to 19.12.2025	gemäss Ankündigung oder indiv. Vereinbarung	Hans-Johann Glock
3699	Philosophie der Antike und des Mittelalters (Vertiefung) (Glock) (Fortsetzung aus FS25, nicht separat buchbar) 06ST160-505i	from 19.09.2025 to 19.12.2025	gemäss Ankündigung oder indiv. Vereinbarung	Hans-Johann Glock
3755	Sprachphilosophie (Vertiefung) (Glock) (Fortsetzung aus FS25, nicht separat buchbar) 06ST160-513e	from 19.09.2025 to 19.12.2025	gemäss Ankündigung oder indiv. Vereinbarung	Hans-Johann Glock
3723	Philosophie des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts (Glock) (Fortsetzung aus FS25, nicht separat buchbar) 06ST160-012h	from 19.09.2025 to 19.12.2025	gemäss Ankündigung oder indiv. Vereinbarung	Hans-Johann Glock
3694	Metaphysik (Vertiefung) (Glock) (Fortsetzung aus FS25, nicht separat buchbar) 06ST160-511e	from 19.09.2025 to 19.12.2025	gemäss Ankündigung oder indiv. Vereinbarung	Hans-Johann Glock
3657	Erkenntnistheorie (Vertiefung) (Glock) (Fortsetzung aus FS25, nicht separat buchbar) 06ST160-512h	from 19.09.2025 to 19.12.2025	gemäss Ankündigung oder indiv. Vereinbarung	Hans-Johann Glock
3724	Philosophie des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts (Vertiefung) (Glock) (Fortsetzung aus FS25, nicht separat buchbar) 06ST160-507h	from 19.09.2025 to 19.12.2025	gemäss Ankündigung oder indiv. Vereinbarung	Hans-Johann Glock
3651	Erkenntnistheorie (Glock) (Fortsetzung aus FS25, nicht separat buchbar) 06ST160-017i	from 19.09.2025 to 19.12.2025	gemäss Ankündigung oder indiv. Vereinbarung	Hans-Johann Glock
3752	Sprachphilosophie (Glock) (Fortsetzung aus FS25, nicht separat buchbar) 06ST160-018f	from 19.09.2025 to 19.12.2025	gemäss Ankündigung oder indiv. Vereinbarung	Hans-Johann Glock

Publications

ZORA Publication List

Publications

2021
- Book Section
  - Glock, Hans Johann (2021). Concepts and experience: a non-representationalist perspective. In: Demmerling, Christoph; Schröder, Dirk. Concepts in Thought, Action, and Emotion. New York: Routledge, 21-41.
  - Glock, Hans Johann (2021). Animal consciousness – A limit of language?. In: Appelqvist, Hanne. Wittgenstein and the Limits of Language. New York: Routledge, 197-222.
- Scientific Publication in Electronic Form
  - Glock, Hans Johann; Bossart, Yves (2021). Hans-Johann Glock – Tiere verstehen, aber wie?. Zürich: SRF.
2020
- Journal Article
  - Glock, Hans-Johann (2020). Minds, Brains, and Capacities: Situated Cognition and Neo-Aristotelianism. Frontiers in Psychology, 11:566385.
  - Glock, Hans-Johann (2020). Determinacy of content : the hard problem about animal intentionality. The Harvard Review of Philosophy, 27:101-120.
- Book Section
  - Glock, Hans-Johann (2020). Concepts and experience: a non-representationalist approach. In: Demmerling, Christoph; Schröder, Dirk. Concepts in thought, action, and emotion: new essays. Abingdon: Routledge, 21-41.
  - Glock, Hans-Johann (2020). Analytische Philosophie (I): Willard Van Orman Quine. In: Urbich, Jan; Zimmer, Jörg. Handbuch Ontologie. Stuttgart: Metzler, 236-242.
  - Glock, Hans-Johann (2020). Flüchtige Gedanken über Nachdenklichkeit. In: Schoeller, Donata; von Sass, Hartmut. Nachdenklichkeit. Zürich: Diaphanes, 59-69.
  - Glock, Hans Johann (2020). Flüchtige Gedanken über Nachdenklichkeit. In: Abbt, Christine; Schoeller, Donata; von Sass, Hartmut. Nachdenklichkeit. Zürich: Diaphanes, 59-70.
  - Glock, Hans-Johann (2020). Analytische Philosophie (I): Willard Van Orman Quine. In: Urbich, Jan; Zimmer, Jörg. Handbuch Ontologie. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 236-242.
- Newspaper Article
  - Glock, Hans Johann; Nickl, Roger. Computer sind nicht neugierig. In: UZH Magazin : die Zeitschrift der Universität Zürich : die Wissenschaftszeitschrift, 1, 2020, p.35-37.
2019
- Journal Article
  - Glock, Hans-Johann (2019). Agency, intelligence and reasons in animals. Philosophy, 94(04):645-671.
- Book Section
  - Glock, Hans-Johann (2019). What Is Meaning? A Wittgensteinian Answer to an Un-Wittgensteinian Question. In: Conant, James; Sunday, Sebastian. Wittgenstein on Philosophy, Objectivity, and Meaning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 185-210.
  - Glock, Hans-Johann (2019). The normativity of meaning revisited. In: Roughley, Neil; Bayertz, Kurt. The Normative Animal?: On the Anthropological Significance of Social, Moral, and Linguistic Norms. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 295-318.
  - Glock, Hans-Johann (2019). Aristotle on the anthropological difference and animal minds. In: Keil, Geert; Kreft, Nora. Aristotle's Anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 140-160.
  - Glock, Hans Johann; Schmidt, Eva (2019). Objectivism and causalism about reasons for action. In: Schumann, Gunnar. Explanation in Action Theory and Historiography : Causal and Teleological Approaches. Abingdon: Taylor & Francis, 124-145.
2018
- Journal Article
  - Glock, Hans Johann; Bonino, Guido; Tripodi, Paolo (2018). Interviews on the history of late analytic philosophy - Interview with Hans-Johann Glock. Philosophical Inquiries, 6(1):26-29.
  - Glock, Hans Johann (2018). The awful English language. Philosophical Papers, 47(1):123-154.
- Book Section
  - Glock, Hans-Johann (2018). Critical note: language and learning from the 4e perspective. In: Newen, Albert; De Bruin, Leon; Gallagher, Shaun. The Oxford Handbook of 4E Cognition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 706-716.
  - Glock, Hans Johann (2018). Semantics: Why rules ought to matter. In: Beran, Ondrej; Kolman, Vojtech; Koren, Ladislav. From rules to meanings: New essays on inferentialism. London, 63-80.

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Additional Information

Sternstunde Philosophie: Den Geist der Tiere verstehen – aber wie? (2022)
With Yves Bossart

Truth 20|21: Truth and the Tractatus (2021)
Podcast of a workshop by the Virtual International Consortium for Truth Research (VICTR) with contributions of Hans-Johann Glock, José Zalabardo and Juliet Floyd

Sternstunde Philosophie: Ludwig Wittgenstein – Der Ausweg aus dem Fliegenglas (2013)
With Barbara Bleisch

A Festschrift dedicated to Professor Hans-Johann Glock has just been published by Routledge

Wittgenstein and Beyond Essays in Honour of Hans-Johann Glock, edited By Christoph C. Pfisterer, Nicole Rathgeb, Eva Schmidt (Routledge, Abingdon 2022)

It includes contributions by leading philosophers from Great Britain, Germany, Austria and Switzerland, with an Introduction by the editors as well as Reflections and Replies by Glock.

Hans-Johann Glock has been appointed to the editorial board of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy for the Twentieth Century Philosophy section. Congratulations from the seminar!

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