2023 - 2027 Plato and the concept of becoming like a god
2024 - 2026 大規模言語モデルを活用した西洋古典研究と教育の推進
2024 - 2025 Research on AI-Driven Text Analysis and Database Expansion Technologies for Western Classical Studies
2024 - 2025 Promotion of Research and Education in Western Classics Utilizing Large Language Models
2020 - 2023 A Study on the Relation between Ancient Greek Geometrical Analysis and Plato's Philosophical Methods
2018 - 2021 The Ancient Origin of Analytic Methods
2016 - 2018 A Study on the First Principles of Knowledge in Western Ancient Thought
2009 - 2011 Plato on Poetry and Craft: Investigation into Rhetoric and Mimesis
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Papers (14)：
Naoya Iwata, Ikko Tanaka, Jun Ogawa. Improving Semantic Search Accuracy of Classical Texts through Context- Oriented Translation. Proceedings of IPSJ SIG Computers and the Humanities Symposium. 2024
Naoya Iwata, Ikko Tanaka, Jun Ogawa. Utilizing Large Language Models for Research and Education in Western Classics. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of JSAI. 2024. 38
Naoya Iwata. (Forthcoming) What is the process of division for?. Plato’s Sophist: Selected Papers of the Thirteenth Symposium Platonicum. 2024
Naoya Iwata. Aristotle's Concepts of Analysis. Journal of Classical Studies. 2023. 70. 13-24
Naoya Iwata. Socrates' First Voyage in the Phaedo. History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis. 2021. 24. 2. 243-67
Naoya Iwata. (Discussion) The Theory of Nous and the Theory of Forms as Causes in Plato's Phaedo. Annual Review of the Philosophical Association of Western Japan. 2024. 32. 75-94
Naoya Iwata. Humanitext Antiqua: The Intersection of Western Classical Studies and AI. Digital Humanities Monthly. 2024. 156. 1
Naoya Iwata. Justin Humphreys, The Invention of Imagination: Aristotle, Geometry, and the Theory of the Psyche Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023. Pp. 176. ISBN 978-0-8229-4740-0. $50.00 (hardcover). The British Journal for the History of Science. 2024. 1-2
Naoya Iwata. (Discussion) Some Potential Uses of Generative AI in Classical Research. Journal of Classical Studies in Japan. 2024
Naoya Iwata. Book Review of Sarah Broadie, Plato’s Sun-Like Good: Dialectic in the Republic. Journal of Classical Studies in Japan. 2024
Improving Semantic Search Accuracy of Classical Texts through Context- Oriented Translation
(IPSJ SIG Computers and the Humanities Symposium 2024)
Thinkeringʼ on the Collaboration between Classics and LLMs: Classics Chatbot as a Research Platform
(The 13th Conference of Japanese Association for Digital Humanities “Leveraging AI and Digital Humanities for Sustainable Infrastructure” 2024)
Plato's Methods of Dialectic in Alcinous
(Seminar on Greek Philosophy 2024)
Two Forms of Godlikeness in Plato
(PLATO and GODS International Plato Society 4th Asia Regional Meeting (IPS Mid-Term Meeting Part I) 2024)
Harnessing Large Language Models for Classical Text Interpretation: A Comparative Study of Greek Texts and English Translations
(PNC 2024 Annual Conference and Joint Meetings 2024)
- 2015 University of Cambridge Faculty of Classics PhD in Ancient Philosophy
- 2009 Kyoto University Graduate School of Letters Master in Ancient Philosophy
- 2007 Kyoto University Faculty of Integrated Human Studies Bachelor
Professional career (3)：
Doctor of Philosophy (University of Cambridge)
MA (Kyoto University)
BA (Kyoto University)
Work history (9)：
2024/04 - 現在 Nagoya University Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences Associate Professor
2023/04 - 現在 Nagoya University Graduate School of Humanities Associate Professor
2020/04 - 2023/03 Fukuoka University Faculty of Humanities Lecturer
2021/04 - 2021/09 Kyushu University Graduate School of Humanities Part-time Lecturer
2021/08 - 2021/08 Kyoto University Graduate School of Letters Part-time Lecturer
2018/03 - 2020/03 University of Oxford Faculty of Philosophy British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow
2016/01 - 2018/01 Faculty of Classics University of Cambridge Overseas Research Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
2015/01 - 2015/12 University of Oxford Faculty of Philosophy Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Ancient Philosophy (Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies)
2009/04 - 2011/09 Kyoto University Graduate School of Letters JSPS Doctoral Research Fellow (DC1)
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Committee career (7)：
2023/08 - 現在 The Society of Ancient Philosophy Editorial Board Member
2023 - 現在 Nagoya University Philosophical Association Editorial Board Member
2023/07 - 2027/06 Philosophical Association of Japan Editorial Board Member
2023/05 - 2026/05 The Classical Society of Japan JASCA Editorial Board Member
2021/07 - 2025/07 西日本哲学会 編集委員
2009/08 - 2010/08 古代哲学会 編集事務委員
2007/08 - 2009/08 古代哲学会 会計
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Awards (2)：
2024/12 - IPSJ SIG Computers and the Humanities Symposium 2024 Best Poster Prize Improving Semantic Search Accuracy of Classical Texts through Context-Oriented Translation
2009 - Japan Student Service Organization (JASSO) Total exemption from returning a scholarship loan for the Master's course in honour of an outstanding achievement
Association Membership(s) (9)：
The Japan Society for Artificial Intelligence
, Chubu Philosophical Association
, Nagoya University Philosophical Association
, The Philosophical Association of Western Japan
, The Kansai Phirosophical Association
, CLASSICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN
, International Plato Society
, The Society of Ancient Philosophy, Japan
, THE PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION OF JAPAN
