Kobayashi Takuto

コバヤシタクト | Kobayashi Takuto

Affiliation and department：
Job title： Assistant Professor (Non-Tenure-Track)

Research field (2)： Politics , Philosophy and ethics

Research keywords (10)： Political Philosophy , Normative Political Theory , Democratic Theory , Social Egalitarianism , Political Authority , Political Legitimacy , Distributive Justice , Moral Philosophy , Legal Philosophy , Value Theory

Research theme for competitive and other funds (5)：

2025 - 2028 Constructing a Justificatory Framework for Political Procedure: On the Valuation of Political Equality and the Critique of Instrumentalism
2022 - 2023 A Study in the Permissibility of Political Representation for Social Egalitarianism
2021 - 2022 A Critical Investigation into Freedom-Based Non-Instrumental Defenses of Democracy
2020 - 2021 The Compatibility of Social Equality and Political Inequality: A Study of John Rawls’s View on the Plural Voting Scheme
2018 - 2020 The Place of Emotions in Politics: An Approach from the Normative Theory of Democracy

Papers (7)：

Takuto Kobayashi. Democracy Dominates. Komaba Studies in Society. 2025. 34. 25-44
Takuto Kobayashi. Why Does Political Incompetence Matter? A Relational Egalitarian Assessment and Solution. The Annuals of the Japanese Political Science Association. 2024. 2024-II. 241-262
Takuto Kobayashi. Social Equality and the Conditional Justifiability of Political Inequality. Politics, Philosophy & Economics. 2024. 23. 3. 252-272
Takuto Kobayashi. Democracy and Autonomy. Japanese Journal of Political Thought. 2023. 23. 169-201
Takuto Kobayashi. [Doctoral Dissertation] On Justifying Political Procedures: A Comparative Investigation into Theories of Procedural Values. Graduate School of Political Science, Waseda University. 2023

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MISC (3)：

Yusuke Fukuya, Takuto Kobayashi, Sho Kosuda, Shinichi Tabata, Akito Yamaguchi. Translators' Commentary. Hélène Landemore, Democratic Reason: Politics, Collective Intelligence, and the Rule of the Many (Translation, Published by Keiso Shobo). 2025. 205-228
Takuto Kobayashi. Democracy: From the Perspective of Political Philosophy. α SYNODOS. 2024. 324
Takuto Kobayashi, Yusuke Tsuji, Gen Fukushima, Yusuke Fukuya. Translators' Commentary. Jason Brennan, Against Democracy (Translation, Published by Keiso Shobo). 2022. 173-194

Books (2)：

Democratic Reason: Politics, Collective Intelligence, and the Rule of the Many (Japanese Translation)
Keiso Shobo 2025
Against Democracy (Japanese Translation)
Keiso Shobo 2022

Lectures and oral presentations (23)：

Review of Tanaka Masato, What Is Equality? Reconsidering Luck, Disparity, and Meritocracy (Chuokoron-Shinsha)
(The Online Political Theory Forum 2025)
Political Inequality and Social Hierarchy: A Defense of the Constitution Thesis
(Egalitarianism in the 21st Century 2025)
A Social Egalitarian Argument for the Democratic Right to Do Wrong
(The Online Political Theory Forum 2025)
Lottocratic Social Hierarchy: A Conditional Defense
(IVR 2024 Seoul 2024)
Model Lecture: Political Philosophy of One Person, One Vote
(Model Lecture for Waseda University Senior High School 2024)

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Works (1)：

Japanese Translation of Professor Jim Pryor's Guidelines in Philosophy
Takuto Kobayashi 2022 - 現在

Education (3)：

2017 - 2023 Waseda University Graduate School of Political Science Doctoral Program
2015 - 2017 Waseda University Graduate School of Political Science Master of Arts Program
2011 - 2015 International Christian University College of Liberal Arts

Professional career (3)：

Doctor of Political Science (Waseda University)
Master of Arts in Politics (Waseda University)
Bachelor of Arts (International Christian University)

Work history (9)：

2023/10 - 現在 Waseda University School of Commerce Part-Time Lecturer
2023/04 - 現在 Waseda University Faculty of Political Science and Economics Assistant Professor (non-tenure-track)
2020/04 - 現在 Waseda University Waseda Institute of Political Economy Special Research Fellow
2023/04 - 2023/08 The University of Tokyo College of Arts and Sciences Part-Time Lecturer
2020/04 - 2023/03 Waseda University Faculty of Political Science and Economics Research Associate

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Committee career (2)：

2022/04 - 2023/03 Japan Association of Political Economy Assistant for Administrative Office
2020/04 - 2023/03 Waseda Society of Political Science and Economics Assistant for Editorial Board, Waseda Journal of Political Science and Economics

Awards (12)：

2025/10 - Japanese Political Science Association Best Paper Award for Early Career Scholars Why Does Political Incompetence Matter? A Relational Egalitarian Assessment and Solution
2023/03 - Graduate School of Political Science, Waseda University Valedictorian for the Doctoral Program
2023/03 - Graduate School of Political Science, Waseda University Dean's Academic Prize On Justifying Political Procedures: A Comparative Investigation into Theories of Procedural Values (Doctoral Dissertation)
2019/05 - The Japanese Conference for the Study of Political Thought Research Award Values of Political Decision-Making Procedures: Reconstruction and Assessment of Non-Instrumentalism, Instrumentalism, and Compatibilism
2017/04 - Waseda University Scholarship for Young Doctoral Students

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Association Membership(s) (3)：

Japanese Political Science Association , The Japanese Conference for the Study of Political Thought , Japan Association of Political Economy

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