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Office: 2290 Social Science and Humanities Building

Phone: (530) 554-9385

E-mail: jmszaif@ucdavis.edu

Dr. phil.: Freie Universität Berlin, 1993
Habilitation: Universität Bonn, 2001

Habilitationsschrift: Gut des Menschen. Grundzüge und Perspektiven der Ethik des guten Lebens bei Aristoteles und in der Tradition des Peripatos

Areas of Specialization: History of Philosophy, especially Ancient Philosophy, ontology/metaphysics, ethics

Joined the UC Davis Philosophy Faculty: 2006

2008-2009 Course Schedule

Fall
Not Teaching

Winter
21 History of Philosophy: Ancient
161 Plato

Spring
145 Medieval Philosophy
290 Special Topics in History of Philosophy

Other Courses
5 Critical Reasoning
105 Philosophy of Religion
114 History of Ethics
143 Hellenistic and Neo-Platonic Philosophy
160 Presocratics
261 Plato Seminar

Recent Publications

"Doxa and Epistêmê as Modes of Acquaintance in Republic V," Les Etudes Platoniciennes, vol. IV (2007). Paris (Les Belles Lettres), 253-272.

"Aristotle on the Benefits of Virtue (NE X.7 and IX.8)," in The Virtuous Life in Greek Ethics, ed. by B. Reis, Cambridge UP, 2006, 167-193.

Currently Supervising Dissertations

Regina Milano, "The Platonic Socrates: A Model for the Academic Sceptics"