Associate Professor

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Office: 2290 Social Science and Humanities Building

Phone: 752-1292

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

"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.

Der philosophische Wahrheitsbegriff in seiner Geschichte, ed. by M. Enders and J. Szaif, de Gruyter, 2006, ISBN 3-11-017754-4.

Currently Supervising Dissertations

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