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David O'Brien is an Assistant Professor at Tulane University's Murphy Institute and Department of Philosophy, with an additional appointment as Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2019) and served as a Faculty Fellow-in-Residence at Harvard University's Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics (2022-2023).
His research focuses on political philosophy, normative ethics, applied ethics, and the philosophy of education, with notable work on:
- Egalitarian principles in higher education
- Feminist critiques of abortion ethics
- Algorithmic fairness and machine learning
- Parental partiality and distributive justice
- Conservatism in axiological theory
Recent publications explore egalitarian machine learning (2023), fairness in abortion ethics (2023), and levelling down objections in nonconsequentialist frameworks (2018). He has received recognition through peer-reviewed citations and Harvard's fellowship (2022-2023).
Email: dobrien10@tulane.edu
