José María Zamora Calvo

Academic Degree:
PhD
Professional Category:
Full Professor
Research Group: HPhil
José María Zamora Calvo (Palencia, 1970) is a professor of Ancient Philosophy at the Autonomous University of Madrid. He received his bachelor’s degree in Philosophy (1993) from the University of Valladolid and his Ph.D. from the same university (1998), both with honors. He furthered his studies at the Free University of Brussels (academic year 1994–95) and during pre-doctoral research stays in 1996 and 1998. He has conducted postdoctoral research stays at the Centre Jean Pépin UPR 76 of the CNRS, Villejuif (France), during 1999–2001, 2007–08, and 2012; he was a Foreign Expert Researcher at CONICET (Argentina) in 2015, and at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne during the summer of 2026. Since 2012, he has been an associate member of the Center for Philosophy at the University of Lisbon, and, since 2014, of the CNRS UMR 7044 ArcHiMèdE in Strasbourg.

He is president of the Spanish Section of the ISNS—International Society for Neoplatonic Studies, president of the SEPLF—Société Espagnole de Philosophie de Langue Française, and a member of the executive board of the ASPLF —Association des Sociétés de philosophie de Langue Française, director of the Spanish section of the Gaetano Massa Forum for Advanced Studies, vice president of the SIFG—Iberian Society of Greek Philosophy, and a member of ALFA—Latin American Association of Ancient Philosophy. He currently coordinates the UAM-recognized research group “Influences of Greek Ethics on Contemporary Philosophy” (Ref. F-055) and collaborates with the Research Group on “Geopolitics of History” (GEOPOLHIS), directed by Félix Duque. Furthermore, at the UAM, he has served as director of the Department of Philosophy since 2020 (re-elected in 2024); as co-coordinator of the Master’s program in “Philosophy of History: Democracy and World Order” since 2012; and as the Department of Philosophy’s representative for International Relations (2004–2024).

E-Mail: jm.zamora@uam.es ; zamora.jm@gmail.com

URL: https://portalcientifico.uam.es/es/ipublic/researcher/260627

Selected Publications

Among his publications: La génesis de lo múltiple. Materia y mundo sensible en Plotino, Valladolid, Universidad de Valladolid (Secretariado de Publicaciones e Intercambio Editorial) 2000; editado Herramientas informáticas aplicadas al estudio de la Antigüedad, Madrid, Ediciones Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Col. “Innovación Docenteʺ, nº. 4) 2005; La amistad en la filosofía antigua, Madrid, Ediciones de la UAM (Col. ʺde Estudiosʺ, nº. 136) 2009; con Alfonso Correa, Εὔνοια. Estudios de filosofía antigua. Un homenaje a María Isabel Santa Cruz, Bogotá, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2009; con Enrique A. Ramos Jurado et alii, Porfirio de Tiro. Contra los cristianos, recopilación de fragmentos, traducción, introducción y notas, Cádiz, Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Cádiz, 2006; Platón. Timeo, edición bilingüe, introducción y traducción, con notas y apéndices de Luc Brisson, Madrid, Abada, 2010; Neoplatonic Questions, Berlin, Logos Verlag, 2014; con D. S. Garrocho, Sócrates. La muerte del hombre más justo, Madrid, Avarigani, 2015; y Éticas griegas y filosofía contemporánea, Buenos Aires, Biblos, 2017; con J. Aguirre, F. Casadesús y N. Tercerio, La transmisión del conocimiento en la Atenas democrática, Madrid, Guillermo Escolar, 2023; con A.-M. Leminaru, L. Albanese y G. Muscolino, Initiatic Religious Experience in Neoplatonism, Milano, Mimesis International, 2023; Dosier: Pensar las emociones en la Atenas democrática, Synthesis-La Plata, vol. 30, nº. 1, 2023;  Éticas estoicas, Madrid, Tecnos, 2023; Platón. La filosofía y la polis, Barcelona,  Shackleton books, 2024; Guía Comares de Neoplatonismo, Granada, Comares, 2024; Epicuro. El arte de la felicidad. Cartas, Máximas y Sentencias, Barcelona, Penguin Random House, 2025; Porfirio. Sentencias, Salamanca, Sígueme, 2026.

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