Hans Sluga

Who is Hans Sluga?

Hans D. Sluga is a German academic, who is a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. He teaches and writes on, among other things, Gottlob Frege, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, and German philosophy in the Nazi period.

He studied at the University of Bonn and the University of Munich. He subsequently did his B Phil at Oxford, where he studied under R. M. Hare, Isaiah Berlin, and Michael Dummett. He describes his philosophical orientation as follows: "My overall philosophical outlook is radically historicist. I believe that we can understand ourselves only as beings with a particular evolution and history."