Hans-Johann Glock

Hans-Johann Glock, Prof. Dr.

Ordinarius / Full Professor

Phone: +41 44 634 51 57
Address: UZH, Philosophisches Seminar, Zürichbergstrasse 43, CH-8044 Zürich
Room number: ZUP-F-117

E-Mail

Office hours

Wednesday, 15:00 to 16:00 , Zürichbergstrasse 43, 1. floor, room 117 (Please make an appointment: 044 634 45 31 or philsem@philos.uzh.ch).

Research

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

Research Database University of Zurich

Curriculum vitae

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
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 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	Room
2815	Philosophie des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts (Glock) 160-012a	from 1 Feb 2024 to 31 Jul 2024	as announced or arranged	Hans-Johann Glock
2537	Metaphysik (Glock) 160-016a	from 1 Feb 2024 to 31 Jul 2024	as announced or arranged	Hans-Johann Glock
0912	Erkenntnistheorie (Glock) 160-017a	from 1 Feb 2024 to 31 Jul 2024	as announced or arranged	Hans-Johann Glock
3485	Sprachphilosophie (Glock) 160-018a	from 1 Feb 2024 to 31 Jul 2024	as announced or arranged	Hans-Johann Glock
3915	Zentrale Themen und Werke der Philosophie (Glock) 160-504a	from 22 Apr 2024 to 22 Apr 2024	22.4.: 14:00-18:00	Hans-Johann Glock
2816	Philosophie des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts (Vertiefung) (Glock) 160-507a	from 1 Feb 2024 to 31 Jul 2024	as announced or arranged	Hans-Johann Glock
2542	Metaphysik (Vertiefung) (Glock) 160-511a	from 1 Feb 2024 to 31 Jul 2024	as announced or arranged	Hans-Johann Glock
0917	Erkenntnistheorie (Vertiefung) (Glock) 160-512a	from 1 Feb 2024 to 31 Jul 2024	as announced or arranged	Hans-Johann Glock
3488	Sprachphilosophie (Vertiefung) (Glock) 160-513a	from 1 Feb 2024 to 31 Jul 2024	as announced or arranged	Hans-Johann Glock
0846	Einführung in die theoretische Philosophie 160-003a	from 21 Feb 2024 to 29 May 2024	Wed 12:15-13:45	Hans-Johann Glock	see details
0818	Einführung in die Geschichte der Philosophie 160-009a	from 22 Feb 2024 to 30 May 2024	Thu 10:15-12:00, 30.5.: 10:15-11:45	Hans-Johann Glock	see details
0422	Bedeutung und Verstehen 160k034a	from 22 Feb 2024 to 30 May 2024	Thu 14:00-15:45	Hans-Johann Glock	SOE-E-7
0201	Animal Minds 160k526a	from 20 Feb 2024 to 28 May 2024	Tue 10:15-12:00	Hans-Johann Glock	KO2-F-172
3677	Theoretical Philosophy 160-503a	from 21 Feb 2024 to 29 May 2024	Wed 14:00-15:45	Hans-Johann Glock	ZUP-U-8
4558	(Wiederholungsprüfung) Einführung in die theoretische Philosophie 160-003a	from 21 Aug 2024 to 21 Aug 2024	21.8.: 12:15-13:45	Hans-Johann Glock	KOL-F-118
4559	(Wiederholungsprüfung) Einführung in die Geschichte der Philosophie 160-009a	from 22 Aug 2024 to 22 Aug 2024	22.8.: 10:15-11:45	Hans-Johann Glock	KOL-F-118
4596	Theoretical Philosophy 160G120a	from 1 Feb 2024 to 31 Jul 2024	to be announced	Hans-Johann Glock

Publications

ZORA Publication List

Publications

2017
- Journal Article
  - Townsend, Simon W; Koski, Sonja E; Byrne, Richard W; Slocombe, Katie E; Bickel, Balthasar; Boeckle, Markus; Braga Goncalves, Ines; Burkart, Judith M; Flower, Tom; Gaunet, Florence; Glock, Hans Johann; Gruber, Thibaud; Jansen, David A W A M; Liebal, Katja; Linke, Angelika; Miklósi, Ádám; Moore, Richard; van Schaik, Carel P; Stoll, Sabine; Vail, Alex; Waller, Bridget M; Wild, Markus; Zuberbühler, Klaus; Manser, Marta B (2017). Exorcising Grice's ghost: an empirical approach to studying intentional communication in animals. Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 92(3):1427-1433.
- Book Section
  - Glock, Hans Johann (2017). Wittgenstein's Rain in the 'philosophical desert': Pragmatist ideas in post-war Oxford. In: Misak, Cheryl; Price, Huw. The practical turn: Pragmatism in Britain in the long Twentieth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 131-148.
  - Glock, Hans Johann; Hyman, John (2017). Introduction. In: Glock, Hans Johann; Hyman, John. A Companion to Wittgenstein. Chichester: Wiley Blackwell, 1-4.
  - Glock, Hans-Johann (2017). Impure conceptual Analysis. In: D´Oro, Giuseppina; Overgaard, Soren. The Cambridge Companion to Philosophical Methodology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 77-100.
  - Glock, Hans Johann (2017). Philosophy and philosophical method. In: Glock, Hans Johann; Hyman, John. A Companion to Wittgenstein. Chichester: Wiley Blackwell, 231-251.
  - Glock, Hans Johann (2017). Wittgenstein and Davidson on animal minds. In: Verheggen, Claudine. Wittgenstein and Davidson on language, thought, and action. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 159-185.
  - Glock, Hans Johann; Kalhat, Javier (2017). Analytische Philosophie. In: Schrenk, Markus. Handbuch Metaphysik. Stuttgart: Springer, 272-277.
  - Glock, Hans Johann (2017). Animal minds. In: McLauphlin, Brian P. Philosophy : mind. Farmington Hills: Gale, Cengage Learning, 327-351.
- Edited Scientific Work
  - Edited by: Glock, Hans Johann; Hyman, John (2017). Chichester: Wiley Blackwell. A companion to Wittgenstein.
- Newspaper Article
  - Glock, Hans Johann. Ein Buch fürs Leben: Denkspiele vom Reissbrett. In: UZH Magazin : die Zeitschrift der Universität Zürich : die Wissenschaftszeitschrift, 2, 2017, p.8.
2016
- Journal Article
  - Glock, Hans Johann (2016). Philosophy rehinged?. International Journal for the Study of Skepticism, 6(2-3):274-308.
- Book Section
  - Glock, Hans Johann (2016). Wann ist ein Tier ein Tier? Zum Tierbegriff in Philosophie und Biologie. In: Fehlmann, Meret; Michel, Margot; Niederhauser, Rebecca. Tierisch! Das Tier und die Wissenschaft. Zürich: vdf Hochschulverlag, 13-22.
  - Glock, Hans Johann (2016). Preface to this edition. In: Tugendhat, Ernst. Traditional and Analytical Philosophy: Lectures on the Philosophy of Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ix-x.
  - Glock, Hans Johann (2016). Aspect-perception, perception and animals: Wittgenstein and beyond. In: Kemp, Gary; Mras, Gabriele M. Wollheim, Wittgenstein, and Pictorial Representation. London: Routledge, 77-100.
  - Glock, Hans Johann (2016). Geist der Tiere. In: Borgards, Roland. Tiere: Kulturwissenschaftliches Handbuch. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler Verlag, 60-78.
2015
- Journal Article
  - Glock, Hans Johann (2015). Wittgensteinian anti-anti realism: One 'anti' too many?. Ethical Perspectives, 22(1):99-129.
- Book Section
  - Glock, Hans Johann (2015). Sprache. In: Ferrari, Arianna; Petrus, Klaus. Lexikon der Mensch-Tier-Beziehungen. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 327-329.
  - Glock, Hans Johann (2015). Intentionalität. In: Ferrari, Arianna; Petrus, Klaus. Lexikon der Mensch-Tier-Beziehungen. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 170-173.
  - Glock, Hans Johann (2015). Neo-Kantianism and analytic philosophy. In: de Warren, Nicolas; Staiti, Andrea. New Approaches to Neo-Kantianism. Cambridge: Cambrdige University Press, 59-81.
  - Glock, Hans Johann (2015). Philosophy of language. In: Forster, Michael N; Gjesdal, Kristin. The Oxford Handbook of German Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 371-397.

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Weiterführende Informationen

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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