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David M. Estlund Curriculum Vitae February 6, 2020 _____________________________________________ David M. Estlund Lombardo Family Professor of Humanities Philosophy Department Brown University Providence, RI 02912 ADDRESS 97 Elm St. Seekonk, MA 02771 E-mail: [email protected] EDUCATION • B.S., Art, 12/80 (with distinction), Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison. • M.A., Philosophy, 12/82, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison. • Audited courses in political philosophy, Michaelmas Term (Fall) 1985, Oxford University, England. • Ph.D., Philosophy, 12/86, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison. - Dissertation: “The Theoretical Interpretation of Voting” EMPLOYMENT • Visiting Assistant Professor, Philosophy, Univ. of California, Irvine, July 1986 - June 1987. • Assistant Professor, Philosophy, Univ. of California, Irvine, July 1987 - June 1991. • Assistant Professor, Philosophy, Brown University, July 1991 - June 1993 • Associate Professor, Philosophy, Brown University, July 1993 - 2001. • Professor, Philosophy, Brown University, July 2001 – present. • Lombardo Family Professor of Humanities and Philosophy, Brown University, July 2009—present. • Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School, January – June 2011. • Visiting Professor, Philosophy Department, Stanford University, July-December, 2019. (See visiting fellowships under “Honors”) p. 1 ACADEMIC HONORS, ETC. (SINCE 1990) 1. American Council of Learned Societies, Fellowship for Recent Recipients of the Ph. D., 7/1/89 - 6/1/90, $10,000. 2. UC Irvine Committee on Research, $3,522 to supplement ACLS Fellowship. 3. Dean's grant (UCI), $10,000 to supplement ACLS Fellowship. 4. Fellowship in Ethics, Program in Ethics and the Professions, in residence at Harvard, 1993-94 academic year, half salary to supplement sabbatical. 5. National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers (FA-34840). Awarded 12/97, to be used in 1998-99 academic year for one semester teaching relief. 6. Visiting Research Fellowship (“Harsanyi Fellow”) in the Research School of Social Sciences at Australian National University, July 2001 – June 2002. 7. Salomon Research Award, Brown University, 2001-02. 8. National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, for Summer 2002. 9. Named Lombardo Family Professor of Humanities, July 1, 2009. 10. Visiting Distinguished Scholar in Political Philosophy, University of Chicago Law School, January 16-24, 2012. 11. Fellowship (teaching relief), at Cogut Center for the Humanities, Brown University, Fall 2014 Honorific speaking invitations: 12. Keynote lecture at conference devoted to my work (to launch CONCEPT, a new center at University of Nottingham), December 14-15, 2010. 13. John Passmore Lecture, Australian National University, August 13, 2013. 14. Brockington Public Lecture and Visitor Queens University (Ontario), , January 10-15, 2016. 15. Green Public Lecture and Visitor, Texas Christian University, February 2016. COMPLETED RESEARCH BOOKS/MONOGRAPHS 1. Sex, Preference, and Family, edited (with M. Nussbaum) volume of papers with substantial commentary essay, Oxford Univ. Press, 1997. 2. Readings in Philosophy: Democracy, edited with long introduction, Blackwell Publishing, 2001. 3. Democratic Authority: A Philosophical Framework, Princeton University Press, 2008. - First chapter translated into French appeared in Raison Publique, October 2008. - Paperback edition appeared October 2009. - Spanish translation: La autoridad democrática: Los fundamentos de las decisiones políticas legítimas, David Estlund (Buenos Aires: Siglo Veintiuno Editores, 2011). - French ranslation: L'autorité de la démocratie. Une perspective philosophique, trad. Y. Meinard, Paris, Hermann, L'avocat du diable, 2011. - Polish translation: IN PROGRESS (under contract) Polish translation of Dem. Auth., by Janusz Grygieńć. Symposia devoted to this book: p. 2 - Two-day conference on themes from my book, Democratic Authority, University of Oslo, December 7-8, 2009. - 14 week-long symposium with weekly critiques of a chapter with reply by me, 2009 at PublicReason.org - Three papers plus reply in Iyyun: The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly, 58: January 2009, following a symposium in Jerusalem. - Four papers plus reply published in Ethics, following a symposium at APA meetings in Vancouver. - Two-day conference on the book at University of Oslo, December 2009. - “Debate” with Tom Christiano about his book and mine, Journal of Political Philosophy 2009 (see below in published articles). - The Good Society, symposium: “Beyond Utopophobia,” three of the five papers are predominantly about the book. 4. (Not a book, but this is the best category) Guest editor of a special issue of Episteme: A Journal of Social Epistemology. The special issue, a short introduction by me, is on the topic, “Epistemic Democracy.” 5. Oxford Handbook of Political Philosophy (editor), Oxford University Press, 2012. Commissioned and edited 21 articles, and contributed a substantial introduction. (Appeared in paperback 2017.) 6. Utopophobia: On the Limits (If Any) of Political Philosophy, Princeton University Press, 2019. - The manuscript was the subject of all-day workshops on successive drafts of the manuscript: Australian National University, August 2014, Brown University, January 2015, University of Warwick 2016, Goethe University Frankfurt, June 2017. - Forthcoming symposium in Philosophical Studies. PAPERS CHAPTERS IN BOOKS 1. "Making Truth Safe For Democracy," in The Idea of Democracy, edited by David Copp, Jean Hampton, and John Roemer, Cambridge University Press 1993, pp. 71-100. 2. "The Visit & The Video: Publication and the Line Between Sex and Speech," Sex, Preference, and Family, Estlund and Nussbaum, eds., Oxford University Press, 1997. 3. "Shaping and Sex: Commentary on Parts I and II," Sex, Preference, and Family, Estlund and Nussbaum, eds., Oxford University Press, 1997. 4. "Beyond Fairness and Deliberation: The Epistemic Dimension of Democratic Authority," in Deliberative Democracy, James Bohman and William Rehg, eds., MIT Press, 1997, pp. 173-204. - Reprinted in Philosophy and Democracy: An Anthology, edited by Thomas Christiano, Oxford University Press, 2003. - Chinese translation in Deliberative Democracy 2008. [publication information needs to be translated.] 5. (See “Political Quality,” under Non-Refereed Papers, also printed as a book chapter.) 6. “Deliberation Down and Dirty: Must Political Expression Be Civil,” in The Boundaries of Freedom of Expression and Order in American Democracy. Kent State University Press, 2001, pp. 49-67. p. 3 - Reprinted in as a monograph by the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions, Indiana University 2004. 7. “Deliberation and Wide Civility: Response to the Discussants,” in The Boundaries of Freedom of Expression and Order in American Democracy. Kent State University Press, 2001, pp. 76-79. 8. “Why Not Epistocracy?” in Desire, Identity and Existence: Essays in honor of T. M. Penner, Academic Printing and Publishing, 2003. pp. 53-69. 9. “Liberalism, Democracy, and the Pursuit of Happiness,” in volume of papers from Kyoto conference (see under “invited lectures”). 10. “Democratic Theory,” for Handbook for Contemporary Philosophy, Smith and Jackson, editors, Oxford University Press. (2006), pp. 208-230. 11. “Comments on Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, “Criminal Justice and Legal Reparations as an Alternative to Punishment,” in Social, Political and Legal Philosophy, volume 1, 2002 (Amsterdam: Rodopi) 12. “Democracy and the Real Speech Situation,” in Deliberative Democracy and Its Discontents, Samantha Besson and Jose Luis Marti, eds., Ashgate 2006, pp. 75-92. 13. “I Will If You Will: Leveraged Enhancements and Distributive Justice,” in Partiality and Impartiality - Moralty, Special Relationships and the Wider World, edited by John Cottingham, Brian Feltham and Philip Stratton-Lake, Oxford University Press 2010. 14. Epistemic Proceduralism and Democratic Authority, In Raf Geenens and Ronald Tinnevelt (eds.), Does Truth Matter? Democracy and Public Space, Springer: Dordrecht. (2008) 15. “Democracy Counts,” in volume on Collective Wisdom, edited by Jon Elster and Helene Landemore (Cambridge University Press, 2012) - French translation on the website for the journal Raison Publique, May 2010. 16. “The Truth in Political Liberalism,” in Truth and Democratic Politics, edited by Andrew Norris and Jeremy Elkins, University of Pennsylvania Press 2010. 17. “G. A. Cohen’s critique of the Original Position,” in The Original Position, Timothy Hinton, ed., Cambridge University Press 2016. 18. “Prime Justice,” in Political Utopias, Kevin Vallier and Michael Weber editors, (Oxford University Press 2017). 19. “Epistemic (Democratic) Deliberation,” in Oxford Handbook of Deliberative Democracy, eds. Jane Mansbridge, Andre Baechtiger, John Dryzek, Mark Warren. 20. “What’s Circumstantial About Justice?” in special issue, Social Philosophy and Policy, volume on ideal and non-ideal theory. 21. "Methodological Moralism in Political Philosophy," Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, (2017) vol. 20, no. 3, 365-379. 22. "The Ideal, the Neighborhood, and the Status Quo: Gaus on the Uses of Justice,"in Ethics, vol. 127, July 2017, pp. 912-928. 23. "When Protest and Speech Collide," volume on academic freedom, Jennifer Lackey, ed. Oxford University Press 2018. 24. “The Epistemic Value of Democratic Deliberation,” coauthored with Helene Landemore, in The Oxford Handbook of Deliberative Democracy, (eds. Andre Bächtiger, John Dryzek, Jane Mansbridge, and Mark Warren) 2018. 25. “Normative
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