Hans-Johann Glock

Hans-Johann Glock (born 12 February 1960 in Freudenstadt) is a German philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of Zurich.

Glock studied philosophy, German studies, and mathematics at University of Tübingen, University of Oxford, and the Free University of Berlin, and in 1990 received his DPhil at Oxford.

After lectureships at Oxford and the University of Reading, he was appointed a position in 2006 at the University of Zurich, where he holds a chair in Theoretical Philosophy.

Glock has worked in particular with the topic of concepts and also on the question of animal cognition.

Furthermore, Glock is considered to be an expert on the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein.