Yoshiaki Nakazawa, PhD

Dr. Yoshiaki Nakazawa

Department Chair and Associate Professor, Education and Classical Learning

Phone: (972) 721-4110

Email: ynakazawa@udallas.edu

Office: Braniff Graduate Building #14

Office Hours: M-F 8:45 - 9:45 a.m. or by Appointment

 

Dr Nakazawa joined the Department of Education and Classical Learning in 2020.

Education

Ph.D., Philosophy and Education, Columbia University, 2016
M.Phil., Philosophy and Education, Columbia University, 2014
B.A., Philosophy; English Literature, Seattle Pacific University, 2007

Publications

Books
A Platonic Theory of Moral Education: Cultivating Virtue in Contemporary Democratic Classrooms, co-authored with Mark Jonas (who is the first author). Routledge Publishing: New York, 2020

Book Chapters
“Plato: Philosophy as Education”, in A History of Philosophy of Education in Antiquity, Vol. 1 (of 5): A History of Western Philosophy of Education, pp.53-74. Bloomsbury Publishing: London, 2021

Select Articles
“Mason Marshall’s Two Sorts of Arguments for Studying Socrates’ Protreptic”, Studies in Philosophy and Education, Vol 41: 699-705, 2022

“Iris Murdoch’s Critique of Three Dualisms in Moral Education”, Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 52, no. 3, 2018

“Two Kinds of Responses to: ‘Why must I learn this?’”, Bulletin of Soka Educational Studies No.67, March 2015

“Appetite, Reason, and Education in Socrates’ ‘City of Pigs’”, written with Mark Jonas and James Braun (who are the first and third authors, respectively), Phronesis, Vol. 57, no. 4, 2012

“Finding Truth in ‘Lies’: Nietzsche’s Perspectivism and its Relation to Education”, written with Mark Jonas (who is the first author), Journal of Philosophy of Education, Vol. 42, No. 2, 2008