Douglas B. Rasmussen

Douglas B. Rasmussen (born 1948) is an American philosopher and professor of philosophy at St. John's University, where he has been teaching since 1981. He earned his B.A. from the University of Iowa in 1971 and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Marquette University in 1980. Rasmussen's scholarly interests lie in the areas of Political Philosophy, Ethics, Ontology, Epistemology, Business Ethics, and Political Economy. He has published numerous articles in prominent philosophical journals, including American Philosophical Quarterly, International Philosophical Quarterly, and The Review of Metaphysics. Rasmussen is also a prolific author of books. He co-authored "Liberty and Nature: An Aristotelian Defense of Liberal Order" (1991), "Liberalism Defended: The Challenge of Post-Modernity" (1997), and "Norms of Liberty: A Perfectionist Basis for Non-Perfectionist Politics" (2005) with Douglas Den Uyl. Additionally, he co-edited "The Philosophic Thought of Ayn Rand" (1984) with Den Uyl. A collection of scholarly essays about his work, "Reading Rasmussen and Den Uyl: Critical Essays on 'Norms of Liberty'," was published in 2008.