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David O'Brien
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, 2021-22
Academic Interests
Normative Ethics
Political Philosophy
Philosophy of Education
Metaethics
Selected Publications
Equal opportunity and higher education. In
Handbook of Equality of Opportunity
, ed. Mitja Sardoc; Springer, Cham, Spinger Major Reference Works series, 1-25 (2023),
https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-319-52269-2_91-1
.
Fairness, care, and abortion.
Journal of Applied Philosophy
40(4): 658-675 (2023),
https://doi.org/10.1111/japp.12661
.
Egalitarian machine learning.
Res Publica
29 (2): 237-264 (2023),
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11158-022-09561-4
(with Ben Schwn and Clinton Castro)
Children, partiality, and equality.
Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy
23 (1): 59-85 (2022),
https://doi.org/10.26556/jesp.v23i1.1539
How far can political liberalism support reforms in higher education? (2022)
Social Theory and Practice
48 (4): 713-744 (2022),
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
.
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)