Name David Estlund Role Philosopher Influenced by John Rawls | Region Western philosophy | |
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Main interests Political philosophy · Democratic theory Notable ideas Epistemic proceduralism Books Democratic Authority: A Philosophical Framework, Utopophobia - Political Philosophy Beyond the Feasible Similar John Rawls, Ronald Dworkin, John Stuart Mill, Isaiah Berlin, H L A Hart | ||
Areas of interest Political philosophy Philosophical era Contemporary philosophy | ||
David Estlund (Brown University), Approximation, Deviation, and Deliberative Democracy
David Estlund is the Lombardo Family Professor of Philosophy at Brown University. He has been teaching moral and political philosophy at Brown since 1991. He previously taught at University of California, Irvine, and 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). He is at work on a book to be called Utopophobia, on questions of realism and idealization in political philosophy.
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