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

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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”.

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
0802	Das Erste Wort: über den Ursprung der Sprache und die Vielfalt der Sprachen UZHI_2	from 21 Sep 2023 to 21 Dec 2023	Thu 18:15-20:00	Hans-Johann Glock

Publications

ZORA Publication List

Publications

2022
- Journal Article
  - Gasparri, Luca; Filippi, Piera; Wild, Markus; Glock, Hans Johann (2022). Notions of arbitrariness. Mind & Language:1-18.
  - Glock, Hans-Johann (2022). Norms, reasons and anthropological naturalism. Philosophical Topics, 50(1):9-32.
- Book Section
  - Glock, Hans-Johann (2022). Moral certainties – subjective, objective, objectionable?. In: Eriksen, Cecilie; Hermann, Julia; O'Hara, Neil; Pleasants, Nigel. Philosophical perspectives on moral certainty. New York: Routledge, Taylor&Francis Group, 171-191.
  - Glock, Hans-Johann (2022). Reflections and replies. In: Pfisterer, Christoph Caspar; Rathgeb, Nicole; Schmidt, Eva. Wittgenstein and beyond : essays in honour of Hans-Johann Glock. New York, NY: Taylor & Francis, 307-332.
  - Glock, Hans-Johann (2022). Strawson and non-revisionary naturalism. In: De Caro, Mario; Macarthur, David. The Routledge handbook of liberal naturalism. London: Taylor & Francis Group, 441-455.
2021
- Journal Article
  - Schlicht, Tobias; Brandl, Johannes L; Esken, Frank; Glock, Hans-Johann; Neewen, Albert; Perner, Josef; Poprawe, Franziska; Schmidt, Eva; Strasser, Anna; Wolf, Julia (2021). Teleology first: goals before knowledge and belief. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 44:e169.
  - Glock, Hans-Johann; Schmidt, Eva (2021). Pluralism about practical reasons and reason explanations. Philosophical Explorations, 24(2):119-136.
- Book Section
  - Glock, Hans-Johann (2021). Ayer’s Verificationism: Dead as a Dodo?. In: Tuboly, Adam Tamas. The Historical and Philosophical Significance of Ayer’s Language, Truth and Logic. Cham: Springer, 251-278.
  - 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). 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.

Pagination

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.

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