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Professor, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo
Email: susumu.cato[at]gmail.com (replace [at] with @)
Correspondence Address
Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-0033
Research Fields
Social Choice Theory
Political Philosophy (distributive justice & population ethics)
Politics, Philosophy, and Economics (PPE)
Welfare Economics
Organizational Economics
Industrial Organization
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Jan 26, 2024: A talk at Otaru University of Commerce
Title: Population ethics with thresholds
Co-authors: Walter Bossert and Kohei Kamaga
Event: Saturday Workshop
Jan 26, 2024. 4:10 pm -5:40 pm
Jan 27, 2027: A study group on Rawls's political philosophy
A host of this group.
Jan 30, 2024: A talk in the JLPS workshop
Feb 6, 2024: Applied Ethics Workshop
Role: organizer
Two presentations (chaired by Ken Oshitani):
Satoshi Kodama (Kyoto U )
Title：Conceptual and ethical issues in pandemic response
Jeroen Hopster (1 hour; In person; chaired by Ken Oshitani)
Title：Do status quo expectations carry moral weight? Their role in a just climate transition
Location: Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo
Date：February 6, 2024／3:00 pm ‐5:00 pm (JST)
Feb 9, 2024: A presentation
Title: Fair social quasi-orderings
Event: Dialogue between Philosophy and Economics: Taking Interpersonal Comparisons of Well-being Seriously in Its Formulation and Measurement for Social Evaluation
Feb 16, 2024: A new paper has been accepted.
Title: Tsunami-tendenko follows the anti-extinction principle, not utilitarianism
Journal: Journal of Medical Ethics
Co-author: Ken Oshitani
March 4, 2024: Hosting a talk
Speaker: Benoit Decerf (The World Bank)
Title: Lives, Livelihoods, and Learning: A Global Perspective on the Wellbeing Impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic (joint work with J. Friedman, A Mendes, S Pennings, N Yonzan)
Location: Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo
March 16-17: A talk by my co-author, Kohei Kamaga (in Japanese)
Event: JAMS (Japanese Association for Mathematical Sociology), Osaka University, Osaka
Paper: The Poverty Line Paradox
Date: March 16, 2024
Note: This is a poster session
March 18, 2024: Hosting a talk
Speaker: L.A.Paul (the Millstone Family Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Cognitive Science, Yale University)
Title: The computational self: location in space, time, and possibility (joint work with Julian de Freitas (Harvard), Tomer Ullman (Harvard), & Josh Tenenbaum (MIT))
Location: Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo
Co-organizer: Kengo Miyazono (Graduate School of Humanities & Human Sciences, Hokkaido University)
April 4, 2024: A new paper has been accepted.
Title: Smallest quasi-transitive extensions
Journal: Journal of Mathematical Economics
Co-authors: Walter Bossert and Kohei Kamaga
April 17, 2024: A talk at the Department of Economics at Seoul National University
Title: Ex-post approaches to prioritarianism and sufficientarianism
Date: April 17
Note: T. S. Kim Seminar (Micro)
May 1, 2024: A new paper has been accepted.
Title: Repugnance at the limit
Journal: Ratio
Co-authors: Ko Harada and Ken Oshitani
May 16-17: A talk at Frontiers of Economics and Philosophy Conference
Paper: Population ethics with thresholds
Location: The Paris School of Economics
Date: May 17
May-June 2024
A short-term visit to Lund University.
May 30-31: a talk at the Value Theory workshop in Lund
Event: Value Theory workshop
Paper: Population ethics with thresholds
Location: Lund University
Date: May 31
June 3: A talk in Stockholm
Paper: The Demands of Sustainability (joint work with Katie Steele)
Location: The Institute for Futures Studies
June 7: A talk in Lund
Paper: The Limits of Timeslice Views (joint work with Iwao Hirose)
Event: Workshop in Formal Ethics
Location: Lund University
June 15-16: A talk in Taiwan
Paper: Long-term ng-term Consequences of School-mediated Transition from School to Work: Theory and Evidence (joint work with Hiroshi Ishida)
Event: 2024 Annual Meeting of Life Course Transitions in East Asia: Education, Employment, and Family Formation
Location: National Taiwan University
Date: June 16
June 15: Organizing an event
Event: A postdoc session for axiologists (Social Science and Ethics)
Speaker: Iwao Hirose
Coordinator: Susumu Cato
July 2-5: A talk in Paris
Paper: Fair Quasi-Orderings (joint work with Marc Fleurbaey)
Event: 17th Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare
Date: July 5
My co-author, Kohei Kamaga, talk our paper too on July 5.
July 16: Organizing a talk
Event: Workshop on Methodology of Social Science
Title: The disvalue of premature death and its temporal location: philosophical foundations of population health measure
Speaker: Iwao Hirose
Aug 13: A new paper has been accepted.
Title: Acyclic population ethics and menu-dependent relations
Journal: Economics and Philosophy
August 26-28: A talk at Jeju (island), South Korea
Event: East Asia Game Theory Conference 2024
Paper: Population ethics with thresholds
Sept 20: Workshop on Social Choice Theory
Sept 30: Social Choice Working Group Session
Walter Bossert and Kohei Kamaga
Topics: Population Ethics, Voting, Social Mobility, and Inequality
Oct: Visiting Australian National University
Host: Alan Hájek
Nov 4: A new paper has been accepted.
Title: Multi-species population ethics with critical levels
Journal: Erkenntnis
Co-author: Shu Ishida
Nov 13-16: PPE conference
Paper: Population ethics with thresholds
Nov 21: A talk at Princeton
Event: Formal Philosophy Working Group
Dec 3: A new work is published
A panel discussion from the Japan Law and Economics Association 2022 has been published in the Law and Economics Review.
This is done with Fumio Otake, Shigeto Yonemura, Masahiko Ohta, and Daisuke Mori.
Jan 21: Co-organizing an international workshop
Title: Inclusiveness and Sustainable Development
Venue: Venue: Sanjō Conference Hall, University of Tokyo
11:50 PM - 12:50 PM: Ayako Ozawa (DBJ) and Tatsufumi Aoyama (DBJ)
12:50 PM - 1:00 PM: Welcoming and Opening Remarks
Susumu Cato (UTokyo) and Jungmin Park (SNU, Department of Social Welfare & PPE)
1:00 PM - 2:20 PM: Session 1 (Sanjō Conference Hall, Two speakers, 40 minutes each)
Eric Weese (UTokyo, Institute of Social Science): Creative Destruction in the European State System: 1000-1850 (With David Schonholzer)
Hyunwoo Hong (CNU, Department of Economics): Climate Justice: Historical Accountability vs. International Paretianism
2:20 PM - 2:40 PM: Coffee/Tea Break
2:40 PM - 4:00 PM: Session 2 (Sanjō Conference Hall, Two speakers, 40 minutes each)
Biung-Ghi Ju SNU, Department of Economics & PPE): Adam Smith Theorem: Justice Leads Prosperity
Ayumi Igarashi (UTokyo): Fair allocation of indivisible items under category constraints
4:00 PM - 4:10 PM: Closing Remarks
Hosted by
Economics Program in Seoul National University (main organizer)
"Methodology of Social Sciences" project of Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo (co-organizer)
Research Institute of Capital Formation, Development Bank of Japan. (co-organizer)
Jan 28, 2025: A new paper has been accepted.
Title: Rational Incompetence of Voters
Journal: Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy
Jan 30, 2025: 2nd Workshop on Social Choice Theory
Feb 7, 2025: A new paper has been accepted.
Title: Positional Conditional Egalitarianism
Journal: Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy
Co-author: Ken Oshitani
Sept 13: A paper has been accepted:
Title: Ex-post approaches to prioritarianism and sufficientarianism
Journal: Theoretical Economics
Co-authors: Matthew D. Adler, Walter Bossert, and Kohei Kamaga
March 6, 205: ISS Analytical Philosophy Workshop
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