Profile

Naoya Iwata

Associate Professor, Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences, Nagoya University

Associate Professor, Graduate School of Humanities, Nagoya University (Concurrent)

Research Associate, Digital Content and Media Sciences Research Division, National Institute of Informatics (Concurrent)

Research Areas: History of Thought, Ancient Philosophy
Research Interests: Ancient Philosophy, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Plato, Aristotle, Greek Mathematics

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1. Employment History

Sep, 2025 – Present: Research Associate, National Institute of Informatics

Apr, 2024 – Present: Associate Professor, Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences, Nagoya University

Apr, 2023 – Present: Associate Professor, Graduate School of Humanities, Nagoya University

Apr, 2020 – Mar, 2023: Lecturer, Faculty of Humanities, Fukuoka University

Mar, 2018 – Mar, 2020: British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford

Jan, 2016 – Jan, 2018: JSPS Overseas Research Fellow, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge

Jan, 2015 – Dec, 2015: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Ancient Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford

Apr, 2009 – Sep, 2011: JSPS Research Fellow (DC1), Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University

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, Faculty of Integrated Human Studies, Kyoto University

3. Publications

Selected Papers

2025, ‘Displaying Proposal Rationales in Law Databases: Identification and Summarization of Statements Using Generative AI’ (with T. Sano), Dejitaru Akaibu Gakkaishi, 9(s1), s5-s8.

2025, ‘An Integrated Digital Platform Linking Aristotle’s Texts and Ancient Commentaries: A Classical Reading Environment Powered by Large Language Models’ (with I. Tanaka & J. Ogawa), Proceedings of the Annual Conference of JSAI, 39.

2025, ‘Alcinous on Plato’s Dialectic’, The Proceedings of Seminar on Greek Philosophy, 21.

2024, ‘Improving Semantic Search Accuracy of Classical Texts through Context- Oriented Translation’ (with I. Tanaka & J. Ogawa), Proceedings of IPSJ SIG Computers and the Humanities Symposium.

2024, ‘What is the Process of Division for?’, Plato’s Sophist: Selected Papers of the Thirteenth Symposium Platonicum, pp. 99–106.

2024, ‘The Theory of Nous and the Theory of Forms as Causes in Plato’s Phaedo’, Annual Review of the Philosophical Association of Western Japan, 32, pp. 75–94.

2024, ‘Utilizing Large Language Models for Research and Education in Western Classics’ (with I. Tanaka & J. Ogawa), Proceedings of the Annual Conference of JSAI, 38.

2023, ‘Aristotle’s Concepts of Analysis’, Journal of Classical Studies, 70, pp. 13-24.

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

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

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

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

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

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

2010, ‘An introduction to Craft Analogy: on the problem of techne and value in Plato’s Republic 1 and Gorgias’, A Journal for Ancient Philosophy (Methodos), 42, pp. 31–48.

2010, ‘Individuality and universality of knowledge: on the concept of the objects of Techne and Dynamis in Plato’s early and middle dialogues’, The Proceedings of the Department of Ancient Philosophy at Kyoto University (Hypothesis), 15, pp. 26–50.

2008, ‘Poetry and craft: an interpretation of Plato’s Ion 532c5-d3’, A Journal for Ancient Philosophy (Methodos), 40, pp. 45–60.

4. Awards

Sep, 2025: IPSJ Yamashita SIG Research Award, Information Processing Society of Japan

Dec, 2024: Best Poster Prize, IPSJ SIG Computers and the Humanities Symposium 2024

2009: Total exemption from returning a scholarship loan for the Master’s course in honour of an outstanding achievement, Japan Student Service Organization (JASSO)

5. Grants & Funding

2025 – 2030: Next-Generation AI Researcher Development Program (BOOST), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)

2023 – 2028: Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

2018 – 2021: Postdoctoral Fellowship, The British Academy