David Estlund

Who is David Estlund?

David Estlund is 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 around liberalism, justice, and especially democracy. He sits on the editorial board of the academic journal Representation. He is editor of the collection, Democracy and the author of Democratic Authority: A Philosophical Framework. He is at work on a book to be called Utopophobia, on questions of realism and idealization in political philosophy.