Hans-Johann Glock

Hans-Johann Glock is a German philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of Zurich. He was born on February 12, 1960, in Freudenstadt, West Germany. He studied philosophy, German studies, and mathematics at the University of Tübingen, University of Oxford, and the Free University of Berlin, and received his DPhil from Oxford in 1990. Following lectureships at Oxford and the University of Reading, he was appointed to a chair in Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Zurich in 2006. He also holds a visiting professorship at the University of Reading. Glock's research interests lie in the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and analytic philosophy. He has particularly focused on the topics of concepts and animal cognition. He is also considered an expert on the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein.