David O'Brien

Assistant Professor

105E Newcomb Hall

Education

Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison

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

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.
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)