David Estlund
{{short description|American philosopher}}
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| education = University of Wisconsin, Madison (PhD)
| institutions =Brown University
|school_tradition = Analytic
|main_interests = Political philosophy{{·}} Democratic theory
|notable_ideas = Epistemic proceduralism
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David Estlund is the Lombardo Family Professor of Philosophy at Brown University, where he has taught since 1991. He works primarily in political philosophy.
Education and career
Estlund earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and taught briefly at the University of California, Irvine, before moving to Brown. He has spent fellowship years at the Program in Ethics at Harvard University and at Australian National University. His research interests center on liberalism, justice, and especially democracy. He sits on the editorial board of the academic journal Representation.{{cite web | title = Representation | url = http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=editorialBoard&journalCode=rrep20#.UhG4yJg7uSo | work = editorial board | publisher = Taylor & Francis | accessdate = 19 August 2013}} He is editor of the collections Democracy (Blackwell, 2002) and The Oxford Handbook of Political Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2012), and the author of Democratic Authority: A Philosophical Framework (Princeton University Press, 2008){{cite web | url=https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691143248/democratic-authority?srsltid=AfmBOoqA-KBcaD-rjKHQTU4sojMrqyORdkyNhnVa0-2E0iKy6eFgIh2- | title=Democratic Authority | Princeton University Press | date=23 August 2009 }} and Utopophobia. On The Limits (If Any) Of Political Philosophy, (Princeton University Press, 2019).{{cite web | url=https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691147161/utopophobia?srsltid=AfmBOorJApvi60Ber2_UA6epn0qDpKHKaEzI5Q7ze2sVPbssIv3_cXjc | title=Utopophobia | Princeton University Press | date=3 December 2019 }}
References
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External links
- [https://vivo.brown.edu/display/destlund David Estlund's Brown University Research Page]
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Category:21st-century American philosophers
Category:Brown University faculty
Category:American political philosophers
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