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Publications
David Estlund
(as of July 2007)

a. 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 , in press at Princeton University Press. Due October 2007

b. 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.

 

5.     “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.

 

6.     “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.

 

7.     “Why Not Epistocracy?” in Desire, Identity and Existence: Essays in honor of T. M. Penner, Academic Printing and Publishing, 2003.

 

8.     “Liberalism, Democracy, and the Pursuit of Happiness,” in volume of papers from Kyoto conference (see under “invited lectures”). (forthcoming)

 

9.    “Democratic Theory,” for Oxford Handbook for Contemporary Philosophy, Smith and Jackson, editors, Oxford University Press, 2006.

 

10.    “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)

 

 

c. Refereed Journal Articles


1.     "The Persistent Puzzle of the Minority Democrat," American Philosophical Quarterly, April 1989, pp.143-151.

 

2.     "Democracy and the Common Interest: Condorcet and Rousseau Revisited," American Political Science Review, December 1989, pp. 1317-1322.

 

3.     “Mutual Benevolence and the Theory of Happiness," The Journal of Philosophy, April 1990, pp. 187-204.

 

4.     "Democracy Without Preference," The Philosophical Review, July 1990, pp. 397-423.

-     Reprinted in Readings in Social and Political Philosophy, 2nd edition, Robert Stewart, editor New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

 

5.   "Opinion Leaders, Independence, and Condorcet's Jury Theorem," Theory and Decision January 1994, pp. 131-162.

 

6.  "The Survival of Egalitarian Justice in John Rawls' Political Liberalism" The Journal of Political Philosophy, March 1996, pp. 68-78.

-      Reprinted in The Philosophy of John Rawls: A Collection of Essays, Richardson and Weithman, eds., Garland Press 1999, Vol. 2, pp. 198-208.

-      Reprinted in John Rawls: Critical Assessments of Leading Political Philosophers, Chandran Kukathas, editor, Routledge.

7.   “The Insularity of the Reasonable: Why Political Liberalism Must Admit the Truth,” ETHICS, vol. 108, January 1998, pp. 252-275.

-      Reprinted in John Rawls: Critical Assessments of Leading Political Philosophers, Chandran Kukathas, ed., Routledge.

 

8.     “Liberalism, Equality and Fraternity in Cohen’s Critique of Rawls,” The Journal of Political Philosophy, vol. 6, number 8, March 1998, pp. 99-112.

 

9.     “The Democracy/Contractualism Analogy,” Philosophy and Public Affairs, vol. 31, no. 4 (Fall 2003), pp. 387-412.

 

10.    “The Persuasiveness of Democratic Majorities,” with Robert Goodin, in Politics, Philosophy & Economics, May 2004, vol. 3, iss. 2, pp. 131-142(12)

 

11. “Political Authority and The Tyranny of Non-Consent,” Philosophical Issues , 15, 2005, pp. 351-67.

12. “On Following Orders in an Unjust War, “ The Journal of Political Philosophy, 2007.

13. “Democracy and the Real Speech Situation,” in Deliberative Democracy and Its Discontents , Samantha Besson and Jose Luis Marti, eds., Ashgate 2006, pp. 75-92.

 

d. Non-refereed Journal Articles

1.     "Who's Afraid of Deliberative Democracy? The Strategic/Deliberative Dichotomy in Recent Constitutional Jurisprudence," Texas Law Review, June 1993, pp. 1437-1477.

 

2.    “The Epistemic Dimension of Democratic Authority,” half-length version of “Beyond Fairness and Deliberation…” (see B4) The Modern Schoolman, vol. LXXIV, number 4, May 1997, pp. 259-276.

 

3.    “Political Quality,” Social Philosophy and Policy, vol. 17, no. 1, Winter 2000, pp. 127-60.

-     Also published as a chapter in a book that contains the exact contents of that journal issue: Democracy, Paul, Miller, Paul, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 127-60

 

4.     “The Audacious Humility of John Rawls,” Dissent, April 2003.


e. Book Reviews



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