Curriculum Vitaes

Yohei Nishimura

(西村洋平)

Profile Information

Affiliation: School of Human Science and Environment Department of Human Science and Environment, University of Hyogo

Degree: 博士（哲学）(慶應義塾大学)

Researcher number: 90723916
J-GLOBAL ID: 201801017931550509
researchmap Member ID: B000301763

Research Interests

6

Research Areas

2

Research History

12

Apr, 2018 - Present

Associate Professor, School of Human Science and Environment, University of Kyoto
Apr, 2014 - Present

Faculty of Letters, Kyoto University
Apr, 2015 - Mar, 2020

Faculty of Education, Kyoto University of Education
Apr, 2016 - Mar, 2018

School of Health and Sport Sciences, Osaka University of Health and Sport Sciences
Apr, 2015 - Mar, 2018

Faculty of Sociology, Ryukoku University

Education

3

Apr, 2008 - Mar, 2011

Keio University
Apr, 2006 - Mar, 2008

Keio University
Apr, 2001 - Mar, 2006

Faculty of Letters, Keio University

Committee Memberships

6

Nov, 2023 - Present

Councilor, director, The Japanese Society of Medieval Philosophy
Apr, 2019 - Present

書評委員, 日本西洋古典学会
Apr, 2018 - Present

運営委員, ギリシア・アラビア・ラテン哲学会
Sep, 2021 - Sep, 2024

理事, 新プラトン主義協会
Sep, 2014 - Sep, 2018

理事, 新プラトン主義協会

Papers

21

Rethinking the Relationship between Nature and Humanity: Through Ancient Greek Philosophy, the Land Ethic, and Panpsychism

Nishimura Yohei

Cultural Green, (6) 1-17, Mar 30, 2025 Peer-reviewedLead author
That the Nature Contemplates and Generate: Coleridge's Interpretation of Plotinus

Yohei Nishimura

(5) 57-77, Mar 30, 2024 Peer-reviewedLead author
Introducing and Translating Greek Philosophy: Boethius’ Commentaries on Porphyry’s Isagoge

Yohei Nishimura

(64) 105-114, Sep 20, 2022 Lead author
That God Is Not a Being, Nor Does It Create: A Logic of Neoplatonism on God, Being, and Creation

Yohei Nishimura

Studia Neoplatonica, (20) 5-15, Aug 29, 2021 Peer-reviewedLead author
Plotinus' Intellectualism

Yohei Nishimura

METHODOS, 52 25-43, Jun, 2020 Peer-reviewedLead author

Misc.

15

[Book Review] 書評 George Boys-Stones, Platonist Philosophy 80 BC to AD 250 : An Introduction and Collection of Sources in Translation (Cambridge Source Books in Post-Hellenistic Philosophy). Pp. ⅹⅳ+648, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2018 ￡135.00. ISBN 9780521838580

Yohei Nishimura

Journal of Classical Studies, (70) 120-123, 2023
【エッセイ】「ポルピュリオスの樹」

西村洋平

西洋古典叢書月報, 149 2-5, Apr, 2021 Lead author
【書評】 Christina Hoenig : Plato's Timaeus and the Latin Tradition : Cambridge Classical Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018, pp. ⅹⅶ+331, ISBN: 978-1-108-41580-4, 223×144×24mm, ￡75.00

西村洋平

中世思想研究, (61) 143-149, 2019
P. Kalligas, translated by E. K. Fowden and N. Pilavachi, The Enneads of Plotinus: A Commentary, volume 1. Pp. xx + 706, Princeton UP 2014. $85.00

NISHIMURA YOHEI

Journal of Classical Studies, (65) 141-143, Mar, 2017
Round table talk : Mind, Soul and Spirit : What Can Philosophy Say About Mind in the Era of Science of Mind?

KIHARA SHINO, KOTEGAWA SHOJIRO, NISHIMURA YOHEI

國學院雜誌 = The Journal of Kokugakuin University, 117(2) 37-68, Feb, 2016
Marinus, Proclus ou sur le Bonheur, 14-25 (Japanese Translation)

NISHIMURA YOHEI, HORIE SATOSHI

Studia Neoplatonica, (16) 55-68, 2016 Peer-reviewed
【翻訳】ネアポリスのマリノス『プロクロス : 幸福について』第1-13章邦訳

マリノス, 西村洋平, 堀江聡

新プラトン主義研究, (13) 139-150, 2014 Peer-reviewed
The Excerpts from Proclus' In Plotini Enneadas by Psellus (Japanese Translation)

NISHIMURA YOHEI

HYPOTHESIS, (16) 26-43, 2013
Mario Vegetti, Un paradigma in cielo, Platone politico da Aristotele al Novecento, Roma, Carocci, 2009: cap. 10. ‘Platone politico, oggi’ (Japanese Translation)

How to Read Plato’s Republic: Two articles of Professor Mario Vegetti, 19-24, Aug, 2010
Proclus, On the Existence of Evils, chaps. 1–28 (Japanese Translation)

Studia Neoplatonica, (10) 179-215, Aug, 2010 Peer-reviewed
Iamblichus, De communi mathematica scientia (I) (Japanese Translation)

Studia Neoplatonica, (10) 141-177, Aug, 2010 Peer-reviewed
G. Aubry, Dieu sans la puissance. Dunamis et Energeia chez Aristote et chez Plotin., Pp.332, Paris, Vrin, 2006., 38€.

Nishimura Y

Journal of Classical Studies, 58(58) 164-167, 2010
Porphyry sentences, chaps. 33-44 (Japanese translation)

NISHIMURA YOHEI, HORIE SATOSHI

Bulletin of classical studies, (19) 53-76, 2010
The Consistency of a Skeptical Attitude : A Skeptical Defence against the Critique of Peritrope

Lee Tae-soo

Journal of Classical Studies, 57(57) 1-18, 2009
Porphyry Sentences, chaps. 1-32 (Japanese translation)

NISHIMURA YOHEI, HORIE SATOSHI

Language culture communication, (41) 155-181, 2009

[解題]1 テクストと表題について2 ポルフュリオスの思想概観[翻訳]

Books and Other Publications

5

西洋中世の正義論 : 哲学史的意味と現代的意義

山口, 雅広, 藤本, 温 (Role: Contributor, 第3章古代末期の正義論––ストア派とプラトン主義の場合––)

晃洋書房, May, 2020 (ISBN: 9784771033412)
存在論の再検討

土橋, 茂樹 (Role: Contributor, 第6章『純粋善について』の存在論（一）––初期イスラーム哲学のプラトン主義とアリストテレス主義––)

月曜社, Feb 29, 2020 (ISBN: 9784865030907)
世界哲学史2 古代II––世界哲学の成立と展開

伊藤, 邦武, 山内, 志朗, 中島, 隆博, 納富, 信留 (Role: Contributor, 第8章プラトン主義の伝統)

筑摩書房, Feb 10, 2020 (ISBN: 9784480072924)
Introduction to the History of Ethics

Tsuge, Hisanori (Role: Contributor, Plato, Aristotle, Epicureanism, Stoicism)

Azusa, Mar, 2016 (ISBN: 9784872620382)
An Introduction to Neoplatonism [Shin-Platon shugi o manabu hito no tameni]

Muneaki Mizuchi, al (Role: Contributor, Proclus, Simplicius)

Sekai Shiso Sya, May, 2014 (ISBN: 9784790716242)

Presentations

42

A Study of Proclus’ Commentary on the Republic, Treatise XVII

Yohei Nishimura

Sep 21, 2025
The Theory of Intellect in Ancient Aristotelianism: How Alexander’s Active Intellect Functions as a Final Cause

Yohei Nishimura

Sep 7, 2025
Oikonomia and Political Unity in Neoplatonism: Plato and Aristotle in Agreement?

Yohei Nishimura

Keio-Vienna Joint Seminar on Ancient Greek Philosophy, Sep 5, 2025
Plotinus' Ennead III.4, chap. 3-4

Yohei Nishimura

Mar 2, 2025
Ethical Political Thought in Late Antique Neoplatonism

Yohei Nishimura

Sep 20, 2024

Professional Memberships

9

Sep, 2025 - Present

Japanese Association for Eastern Christian Studies
Sep, 2022 - Present

ギリシア哲学セミナー
The Society of Ancient Philosophy
Association for Classical Studies
The Kansai Phirosophical Association

Research Projects

8

イギリスロマン主義期の文学に現れた太平洋イメージについての史的考察

科学研究費助成事業, 日本学術振興会, Apr, 2025 - Mar, 2028

石倉和佳, 西村洋平, 杉山真魚
A Critical Study of "Politics That Internalizes Ethics" in the Western Medieval Scholasticism

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2021 - Mar, 2026
The influence of intergenerational exchange program on prevention of frailty in the elderly and physical and mental health status of the students in children's nursing home

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2021 - Mar, 2024
Study on Intellect and the Categories of Being in Late Antiquity

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2020 - Mar, 2023

Nishimura Yohei
Transmission and Development of Neoplatonic Thought in the Greek, Arabic, and Latin

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2019 - Mar, 2023

Komura Yuta

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