David Braybrooke

David Braybrooke (October 18, 1924 - August 7, 2013) was a political philosopher and professor emeritus at both Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and the University of Texas at Austin.

Braybrooke was born in Hackettstown, New Jersey. He graduated from Boonton High School in 1942 and volunteered for the Army. After the war, he received a BA in Economics from Harvard in 1948, followed by a MA in Philosophy from Cornell University, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy at Cornell in 1953, where he wrote a dissertation on welfare and happiness. He also studied English for a term under F. R. Leavis at Downing College, Cambridge.

Braybrooke was an instructor of philosophy at the University of Michigan (1953–54) and Bowdoin College (1954-56), and assistant professor at Yale University (1956–63), where he taught in an interdisciplinary economics and politics program. He also continued post-graduate studies at New College, Oxford (American Council Learned Societies Fellow, 1953) and at Balliol College, Oxford (Rockefeller Foundation grantee, 1959–60). In 1962, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, and in 1963 he began teaching at Dalhousie, where he remained until his retirement in 1990, after which he was made McCulloch Professor of Philosophy and Politics Emeritus.

He continued to teach until 2005, at the University of Texas at Austin, holding the Centennial Commission Chair in the Liberal Arts as a Professor of Government and Philosophy.

While at Dalhousie, he was visiting professor at University of Pittsburgh (1965–66); the University of Toronto (1966-67); the University of Minnesota (1971); the University of California at Irvine (1980); the University of Chicago (1984); Tulane University (1988). He was also a visiting fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge (1985–86); Cecil H. & Ida Green Visiting Professor of Philosophy, University of British Columbia (Oct. 1986); John Milton Scott Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Queen's University (Oct. 1988).

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