Academic Career

Hossein Ziai’s academic career began in Iran in 1977 at Aryamehr Polytechnic University (later, Sharif) and the Department of Philosophy and the Humanities at the University of Tehran. His courses covered Greek and Islamic philosophy, symbolic, predicate, and Classical logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the place of Iranian intellectual traditions in world civilization, and comparative philosophy, including an original graduate seminar on Western philosophical texts based on Husserl’s Cartesian Meditations that compared phenomenological concepts to problems in Islamic philosophy.