Douglas Den Uyl

Douglas J. Den Uyl (born 1950) is an American philosopher, vice president of educational programs at Liberty Fund. He earned his B.A. from Kalamazoo College, his MA from the University of Chicago, and his Ph.D. from Marquette University. Den Uyl's scholarly interests include the history of ideas, moral and political theory, and he has published essays and books on various philosophers including Spinoza, Smith, Shaftesbury, and Mandeville. He previously taught philosophy, served as department chair, and was a full professor at Bellarmine College (now Bellarmine University) before joining Liberty Fund. He is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society and has contributed to journals such as *Journal of the History of Philosophy*, *Social Philosophy and Policy*, and *Journal of Applied Philosophy*, as well as *The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism*. Den Uyl is the author of *The Virtue of Prudence* (1991), *The Fountainhead: An American Novel* (1999), and *God, Man, & Well-Being: Spinoza's Modern Humanism* (2008). He co-authored several books with Douglas B. Rasmussen, including *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). He also co-edited *The Philosophic Thought of Ayn Rand* (1984) with Rasmussen. A collection of essays about Rasmussen and Den Uyl's *Norms of Liberty* was published in 2008.