Ancient Philosophy Lab

Name: Naoya IWATA

Associate Professor in ancient philosophy, Graduate School of Humanities, Nagoya University, Japan (University Website)

Specialization: Plato and Aristotle

Updated CV: here

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1. Positions

2023–present, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Humanities, Nagoya University

2020–2023, Lecturer in Ancient Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities, Fukuoka University

2018–20, British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford

2016–18, Overseas Research Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge

2015, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Ancient Philosophy (‘Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies’ Project), Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford

2. Education

2015, PhD in ancient philosophy, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge

2009, MA in ancient philosophy, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University

2007, BA in philosophy, Faculty of Integrated Human Studies, Kyoto University

3. Research Publications (English only)

Journal Articles

Forthcoming, ‘What is the Process of Division for?’, Plato’s Sophist: Selected Papers of the Thirteenth Symposium Platonicum.

2021, ‘Socrates’ First Voyage in the Phaedo’, History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis, vol. 24, issue 2, pp. 243–67.

2021, ‘Aristotle on Geometrical Potentialities’, Journal of the History of Philosophy, vol. 59, issue 3, pp. 371–97.

2020, ‘The Attunement Theory of the Soul in the Phaedo’, JASCA (Japan Studies in Classical Antiquity), vol. 4, pp. 35–52.

2018, ‘Plato’s Recollection Argument in the Philebus’, Rhizomata, vol. 6, issue 2, pp. 189–212.

2016, ‘Plato’s Hypothetical Inquiry in the Meno’, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, vol. 24, issue 2, pp. 194–214.

2015, ‘Plato on Geometrical Hypothesis in the Meno’, Apeiron, vol. 48, issue 1, pp. 1–19.