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MIURA Taichi

Department / Course

College of Humanities

School of General Education Liberal Arts Program (Humanities and Social Literacy)

Job Associate Professor

Education and Degrees
2014/04～2018/10	Department of Philosophy Faculty of Humanities King’s College London
2005/04～2008/03	Graduate School of Philosophy Sophia University Graduated

Business career
2019/04 ～	Lecturer Chubu University College of Humanities

Belonging society
	THE JAPANESE SOCIETY FOR ETHICS
	THE PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION OF JAPAN
	THE CLASSICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN

Present specialized field
Ancient Greek Philosophy keyword(Self-Knowledge,Plato,Ancient Greek Philosophy)

Book and thesis
Books	〔Translation〕Ancient Philosophy: A Contemprary Introduction (2nd edition) (Co-authored) 2022/08
Papers	The Meaning of Madness in Plato's Phaedrus,pp.51-69 2021/10/10
Papers	Immortality and Imperishability of the Soul in the Final Argument of Plato’s Phaedo Plato’s Phaedo: Selected Papers from the Eleventh Symposium Platonicum,pp.193-198 2018/12
Papers	(PhD thesis) Self-Discovery in Plato’s Phaedo King's College London 2018/08
Papers	What is the Affinity of Soul? : The Significance of the Affinity Argument in Plato's Phaedo,pp.139-152 2011/10

Academic conference presentation
2026/05/07	Socrates’ Treatment of Charmides and Critias: Character, Philosophical Therapy, and Its Failure in Plato’s Charmides (Perspectives on Character and Truth (King’s College, London))
2024/09/13	Asclepius and Socrates’ last words in Plato’s Phaedo (International Plato Society 4th Asia 2024 Regional Meeting "Plato and Gods")
2020/02/17	Holistic Medicine In Plato’s Charmides (14th London Ancient Science Conference)
2018/06	Is the Philosophical Life Ascetic? The Affinity Argument (Phaedo, 78b-84b) (The Second Ancient Philosophy Triangle Graduate Colloquium)
2018/02	Self-Discovery in the Agent of Recollection: The Recollection Argument in Plato’s Phaedo (The 12th London Ancient Science Conference)
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Research topic, funded research, and department laboratory expense
2024/04 ～ 2029/03	Research of Desire in Plato's Philosophy Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
2021/04/01 ～ 2024/03/31	Study on the concept of madness in Plato's thought
2019/08/30 ～ 2021/03/31	A Study of Self-Knowledge in Plato's Philosophy Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity start-up

Teaching Experiences
Seminar on Philosophy and Ethics II/Introductory Seminar on Western Philosophy IV （Nagoya University）
Overview of the History of Occidental Philosophy II （Nagoya University）