David Estlund

David Estlund
Education	University of Wisconsin, Madison (PhD)
Era	21st-century philosophy
Region	Western Philosophy
School	Analytic
Institutions	Brown University
Main interests	Political philosophy · Democratic theory
Notable ideas	Epistemic proceduralism

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. 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).

External links

• David Estlund's Brown University Research Page