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1240 Social Sciences and Humanities
University of California, Davis
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616
Phone: (530) 752-0607
Fax: (530) 752-8964
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Brief Curriculum Vitae
Office: 2290 Social Sciences 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
2009-2010 Course Schedule
Fall
Sabbatical
Winter
21 History of Philosophy: Ancient
Spring
143 Hellenistic Philosophy
290 Special Topics in History of Philosophy
Other Courses
5 Critical Reasoning
105 Philosophy of Religion
114 History of Ethics
145 Medieval 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"