Noburu NOTOMI

1) Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy

2) Classical Philology

3) World Philosophy

Noburu Notomi studies and teaches both philosophy and Western classics. He published a dozen of monographs, over a hundred articles on Ancient Philosophy in Japanese and English, and a few Japanese translations of Plato and Aristotle. His main research interests are Plato, Aristotle, early Greek philosophy, the Sophists, Socrates and their reception in the West and East Asia.

He published A History of Greek Philosophy (Japanese, Chikuma Shobo, 2021) and The Unity of Plato’s Sophist: between the sophist and the philosopher (English, Cambridge University Press, 1999; Japanese version, Nagoya University Press, 2002). He co-edited with Luc Brisson, Dialogue on Plato’s Politeia (Republic): Selected Papers from the Ninth Symposium Platonicum (Academia Verlag, 2013).

In recent years, together with several Japanese scholars, he has promoted “World Philosophy”. His major works include An Introduction to World Philosophy (Chikuma Shinsho, 2024) and A History of World Philosophy (co-edited, 9 volumes, Chikuma Shinsho, 2020).

He was President of the International Platonic Society from 2007-2010 and is a member of the FISP Steering Committee since 2018. In Japan, he is President of the Philosophical Association of Japan, President of the Philosophical Society, and Representative Secretary of the Greek Philosophy Seminar.