David Estlund is the Lombardo Family

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, where he has taught since 1991. He works primarily in

political philosophy Political philosophy or political theory is the philosophical study of government, addressing questions about the nature, scope, and legitimacy of public agents and institutions and the relationships between them. Its topics include politics, l ...

Education and career

Estlund earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from the

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, and taught briefly at the

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, before moving to Brown. He has spent fellowship years at the Program in Ethics at

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and at

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. His research interests center on

liberalism Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality and equality before the law."political rationalism, hostility to autocracy, cultural distaste for c ...

justice Justice, in its broadest sense, is the principle that people receive that which they deserve, with the interpretation of what then constitutes "deserving" being impacted upon by numerous fields, with many differing viewpoints and perspective ...

, and especially

democracy Democracy (From grc, δημοκρατία, dēmokratía, ''dēmos'' 'people' and ''kratos'' 'rule') is a form of government in which the people have the authority to deliberate and decide legislation (" direct democracy"), or to choose gov ...

. He sits on the editorial board of the academic journal '' Representation''. He is editor of the collection, ''Democracy'' (Blackwell, 2002) and the author of ''Democratic Authority: A Philosophical Framework'' (Princeton, 2008) and ''Utopophobia. On The Limits (If Any) Of Political Philosophy'', (Princeton University Press, 2019).

References

External links

David Estlund's Brown University Research Page
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