Education:
Beethoven-Gymnasium, Bonn: Classics
University of Bonn: Gottfried Martin: Leibniz, Kant; Oskar Becker: symbolic logic, later Heidegger; Benno v. Wiese: Schiller
University of Munich: Ludwig Britzlmayr: Frege; Wolfgang Stegmüller: advanced logic, philosophy of science, Carnap, Quine
Balliol College, Oxford University, Oxford: Michael Dummett: set theory, philosophy of logic, Frege, Brouwer, Wittgenstein; Gilbert Ryle: Russell, Wittgenstein; R. M. Hare: ethics
Degree:
B.Phil., Oxford, Dissertation: The Logic of “Good”
Employment:
Assistant Lecturer and Lecturer in Philosophy, University College London, 1963-1970
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley, 1970-73
Associate Professor, UC Berkeley, 1973-1980
Professor, UC Berkeley 1980-present
William and Trudy Ausfahl Professor of Philosophy, UC Berkeley, 2010-present
Other appointments:
Visiting Lecturer, UC Berkeley, 1967
Member of the Group in Logic and Methodology of Science, UC Berkeley, 1970-present
Visiting Gustav Bergmann and Ida Beam Professor, University of Iowa, Fall 1990
Visiting Catherine Chism Gould Professor of the Humanities, University of Puget Sound, Spring 1994
Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of California at Riverside, 1996
Visiting Ernst-Cassirer-Professor, University of Hamburg, Germany, Spring 1998
Visiting Professor, University of Freiburg, Germany, Summer 2002
Visiting Professor, University of Frankfurt, Germany, Summer 2004
Visiting Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Spring 2010
Administrative positions:
Chairman of Philosophy Department, 1981-84
Chairman of Humanities Area Council, 1982-84
Outside Chairman of German Department, June 1988-February 1989
Chairman of the Group in Logic and Methodology, 1989-90, 1994-96
Fellowships:
Scholarship of the Deutsche Studienstiftung, 1957-63
Townsend Senior Fellowship, 1990-91
Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1991-92
Humanities Research Fellowship, UC Berkeley, 1998-99
Humanities Research Fellowship 2004-05
Recent graduate seminars
Fall 2004: Frege on Concept and Object
Spring 2006: The Genealogy of Morals in Nietzsche, Foucault, and Bernard Williams
Fall 2007: Wittgenstein’s Tractatus (with Paolo Mancuso)
Fall 2008: Ancient Political Theory (with Anthony Long)
Spring 2010: Wittgenstein (at CUHK)
Spring 2011: Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
Spring 2012: Philosophy of History
Spring 2014: Michel Foucault and the Surveillance State
Fall 2016: Hegel, The Philosophy of Right