David Estlund

David Estlund
Era	21st-century philosophy
Region	Western Philosophy
School	Analytic
Main interests	Political philosophy · Democratic theory
Notable ideas	Epistemic proceduralism
Influences John Rawls

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.

External links

• David Estlund's Brown University Research Page