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David OBrien
David O'Brien
Assistant Professor
dobrien10@tulane.edu
105E Newcomb Hall
Education
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison
Biography
Philpeople Page
Honors and Awards
Fellow-in-Residence, Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University, 2022-23
Director, Center for Ethics and Public Affairs, Murphy Institute, Tulane University, 2021-23
Academic Interests
Normative Ethics
Political Philosophy
Philosophy of Education
Metaethics
Selected Publications
Children, partiality, and equality.
Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy
(forthcoming)
Egalitarian machine learning.
Res Publica
(2022), advance online, 1-28,
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11158-022-09561-4
(co-authored with Clinton Castro and Ben Schwan)
How far can political liberalism support reforms in higher education? (2022)
Social Theory and Practice
(early view online),
https://doi.org/10.5840/soctheorpract2022812173
Conservatism reconsidered. (2022)
Journal of the American Philosophical Association
8 (1): 149-168,
https://doi.org/10.1017/apa.2020.50
Wrongfulness rewarded? A Normative Paradox (2022)
Synthese
199: 6897-6916.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-021-03098-4
(co-authored with Ben Schwan)
Inequality: do not disperse.
Utilitas
33(2): 193-203 (2020)
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0953820820000333
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The unit and currency of egalitarian concern.
Journal of Moral Philosophy
16 (5): 613-643 (2019).
https://doi.org/10.1163/17455243-20182796
Egalitarian nonconsequentialism and the levelling down objection.
Ratio
32: 74-83 (2019)
Inequality of opportunity: some lessons from the case of highly selective universities.
Theory and Research in Education
15: 53-60 (2017)