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Yasuhira (Yahei) Kanayama is a professor of philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, Nagoya University,
Japan. His main interest lies in Plato’s epistemology and methodology, and also in Ancient Scepticism. He
studied at the Department of History of Western Philosophy, Kyoto University as an undergraduate in 1973–77,
as a graduate in 1977–86, and also as a research student at the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge in
1983–85. After working as a postdoctoral fellow at Kyoto University in 1986–90, and as an assistant professor in
1990–92, he moved to Nagoya University as an associate professor of philosophy in 1992, and then is a professor
since 2000. He is the author of numerous articles in Greek philosophy, especially on Plato, and translator of
Greek philosophical texts such as all the works of Sextus Empiricus (Kyoto University Press, 1998, 2004, 2006,
2010, together with Mariko Kanayama), Aristotle, On Coming-to-be and Passing-away (Iwanami Shoten, 2013),
and of such academic books as A.A. Long, Hellenistic Philosophy (Kyoto University Press, 2003), J. Barnes and J.
Annas, The Modes of Scepticism (Iwanami Shoten, 1990, 2015).
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