Douglas B. Rasmussen (born 1948) is professor of philosophy at St. John's University, where he has taught since 1981.

Biography

Rasmussen earned his B.A. (1971) from the

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, and his Ph.D. (1980) in Philosophy from

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. Rasmussen's areas of scholarly interest include

Political Philosophy Political philosophy or political theory is the philosophical study of government, addressing questions about the nature, scope, and legitimacy of public agents and institutions and the relationships between them. Its topics include politics, ...

Ethics Ethics or moral philosophy is a branch of philosophy that "involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong behavior".''Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy'' The field of ethics, along with aesthetics, concer ...

Ontology In metaphysics, ontology is the philosophical study of being, as well as related concepts such as existence, becoming, and reality. Ontology addresses questions like how entities are grouped into categories and which of these entities exi ...

Epistemology Epistemology (; ), or the theory of knowledge, is the branch of philosophy concerned with knowledge. Epistemology is considered a major subfield of philosophy, along with other major subfields such as ethics, logic, and metaphysics. Epis ...

, Business Ethics, and

Political Economy Political economy is the study of how economic systems (e.g. markets and national economies) and political systems (e.g. law, institutions, government) are linked. Widely studied phenomena within the discipline are systems such as labour ...

. Rasmussen has contributed articles to leading journals such as ''American Philosophical Quarterly'', ''International Philosophical Quarterly'', ''The New Scholasticism'', ''Public Affairs Quarterly'', ''The Review of Metaphysics'', ''American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly'', ''Social Philosophy and Policy'', and ''The Thomist''. Rasmussen coauthored (with

Douglas Den Uyl Douglas J. Den Uyl (born 1950) is vice president of educational programs at Liberty Fund. Biography Den Uyl earned his B.A. from Kalamazoo College, his MA from the University of Chicago, and his Ph.D. from Marquette University. Den Uyl's areas o ...

) several books: '' 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 (with Den Uyl) ''

The Philosophic Thought of Ayn Rand ''The Philosophic Thought of Ayn Rand'' is a 1984 collection of essays on Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism, edited by Douglas Den Uyl and Douglas B. Rasmussen. It includes essays by nine different authors covering Rand's views in various ar ...

'' (1984). A collection of scholarly essays about Rasmussen and Den Uyl's ''Norms of Liberty'', ''Reading Rasmussen and Den Uyl: Critical Essays on "Norms of Liberty"'', edited by Aeon J. Skoble, was published in 2008.''Reading Rasmussen and Den Uyl'' at Library of Congress
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References

External links

Douglas B. Rasmussen's faculty page at St. John's University

Rasmussen's CATO page

Interview with Professor Douglas Rasmussen at the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship
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