Jan Szaif
Professor
UC Davis, Dept of Philosophy
1 Shields Ave
Davis, CA 95616
(Office: 2290 Social Sciences & Humanities Bldg)
Education:
- PhD in Philosophy: Freie Universität Berlin, 1993
- M.A. in Philosophy and Ancient Greek: Freie Universität Berlin, 1988
- Visiting Graduate Student at the University of Cambridge 1990-1991
Biography:
Dissertation: Platos Concept of Truth (1993, directed by Ernst Tugendhat)
Habilitation: Problems and Developments in the Aristotelian and Peripatetic Ethics of Eudaimonia (2001, at the University of Bonn)
Areas of Specialization: History of Philosophy, especially Ancient Philosophy, ontology/metaphysics, ethics
Joined the UC Davis Philosophy Faculty: 2006
Previous Teaching Positions: University of Bonn (Germany): 1993-2006, University of Hamburg: 2003/4(visiting), UC Davis: 2005-2006(visiting)
Stipendiary Fellowships: University of Oxford (1997/98); Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington DC (2002)
2012-2013 Course Schedule
Fall
Not Teaching
Winter
21 – History of Philosophy: Ancient
143 – Hellenistic Philosophy
Spring
161 – Plato
290 – History of Philosophy Seminar (Hellenistic Ethics)
Other Courses
105 Philosophy of Religion
114 History of Ethics
141 Socrates and the Socratic Dialogue
145 Medieval Philosophy
161 Aristotle
261 Plato Seminar
262 Aristotle Seminar
Recent Publications
Gut des Menschen. Problematik und Entwicklung der Glücksethik bei Aristoteles und in der Tradition des Peripatos [The Good of Human Beings. Problems and Developments in the Aristotelian and Peripatetic Ethics of Eudaimonia], deGruyter: Berlin/New York, 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-021691-2.
“Aristotle on Friendship as the Paradigmatic Form of Relationship,” in How Should One Live? Comparing Ethics in Ancient China and Greco-Roman Antiquity, ed. by R. King, D. Schilling. de Gruyter: Berlin/New York, 2011, 208-237.
“The Beginnings of Greek Ontology and the Question of Temporal Being,” in Unity and Time in Metaphysics, ed. by L. Honnefelder, E. Runggaldier, B. Schick. de Gruyter: Berlin/New York, 2009, 151-182.
“Leben aus universaler Wahrheit? Die antiken Wurzeln des Konzepts der Bildung durch Wissenschaft [Ancient Sources for the Concept of Education through Science],” in Bildung durch Wissenschaft (Alber Grenzfragen), ed. by L. Honnefelder e.a. Alber: Freiburg/München, 2011, 33-83.
“Die Aretê des Leibes. Die Stellung der Gesundheit in Platons Güterlehre [The Aretê of the Body: The Place of Health in Plato’s Theory of Goods],” in Leib und Seele in der antiken Philosophie, ed. by D. Frede, B. Reis. de Gruyter: Berlin/New York, 2009, 205-246.
Currently Supervising Dissertations
Christopher Buckels, “Plato’s Theory of Sensible Particulars”
