| Full name | David Estlund |
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| Era | 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western Philosophy |
| School | Analytic |
| Main interests | Political Philosophy ยท Democratic Theory |
| Notable ideas | Epistemic Proceduralism |
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David Estlund is currently 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 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.[1]