Faculty Information - OKADA Takuya | Daito Bunka University

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OKADA Takuya

Department Daito Bunka University Faculty of Law Department of Political Science

Daito Bunka University Graduate School Graduate School of Law Political Science

Job Associate Professor

Main Subject
History of Political Thought

Academic background
1.	2005/04～2009/03	Faculty of Law The University of Tokyo Graduated
2.	2009/04～2011/03	Master Graduate School, Division of Law and Politics The University of Tokyo Finished
3.	2011/04～2016/03	Doctorial Graduate School, Division of Law and Politics The University of Tokyo Finished PhD
4.	2012/09～2014/09	History History department UCL Dropout
5.	2015/01/28 Degree Acquisition	UCL Master of Philosophy

Business career
1.	2016/04 ～ 2017/03	Part-time researcher for university or other academic organization
2.	2019/04 ～ 2022/03	Lecturer
3.	2022/04 ～	Associate Professor

Academic conference
1.	2015/10 ～	European Hobbes Society

Books and Papers
1.	Papers	Hobbes's eschatology and scriptural interpretation in Leviathan The Journal of Ecclesiastical History 73 (2),pp.308-325 (Sole-authored) 2022/04
2.	Papers	Taylor and Hobbes on toleration History of European Ideas 49 (4),pp.637-653 (Sole-authored) 2022
3.	Papers	Hobbes's philological analysis of 'spirit' in Leviathan History of Political Thought 40 (3),pp.433-457 (Sole-authored) 2019/08
4.	Papers	Hobbes on the supernatural from The Elements of Law to Leviathan History of European Ideas 45 (7),pp.917-932 (Sole-authored) 2019/07

Academic conference presentation
1.	2025/07	Locke’s Theory of Toleration and His Concept of the Church in the 1670s and 1680s (28th IPSA World Congress of Political Science)
2.	2025/01	Locke’s Essay on toleration in the context of Restoration conformists (2025 BIAPT conference)
3.	2019/02	Clerical Power and Liberty of Judgement: Hobbes, Taylor, and Radical Tolerationists during the English Revolution (Mini-workshop of the European Hobbes Society)
4.	2018/07	Civil and Ecclesiastical Toleration: Hobbes and Radical Tolerationists during the English Revolution (25th IPSA World Congress of Political Science)
5.	2015/05	Leviathan as Hobbes's reply to the enthusiasts in the English Civil War (2015 Cambridge Graduate Conference in Political Thought and Intellectual History)
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Abroad career
1.	2017/04 ～ 2019/03	University of Oxford JSPS Overseas Research Fellow