PROFESSOR
Department of Philosophy
St. John Hall, Room B30-6
Queens Campus
St. John’s University
8000 Utopia Parkway
Queens, NY 11439
Phone: (718) 990-5434
Fax: (718) 990-1907
rasmussd@stjohns.edu
dbrlogos@earthlink.net
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
- Ph.D., Philosophy, Marquette University, 1980
- B.A., Philosophy, Economics, University of Iowa, 1971
AREAS OF INTEREST
- Political philosophy
- Ethics
- Ontology and epistemology
- Business ethics and political economy
PROFILE
Douglas Rasmussen has been a member of the Philosophy Department
since 1981. Dr. Rasmussen has authored numerous articles in
such journals as American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly,
American Philosophical Quarterly, International Philosophical
Quarterly, The New Scholasticism, The Personalist, Public Affairs
Quarterly, The Review of Metaphysics, Social Philosophy and Policy,
The Thomist, and in many scholarly anthologies. He
guest-edited TELEOLOGY & THE FOUNDATION OF VALUE—the January
1992 (Volume 75, No. 1) issue of The Monist.
Dr. Rasmussen has been awarded grants and fellowships from the
National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute for Humane
Studies, and the Earhart Foundation. He was a Visiting
Research Scholar at the following institutions: Social
Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling Green State University, Ohio,
in the spring of 2001 and the summer of 2008; the Université
Pantheon—Assas Paris II in the summer of 2002; Liberty Fund,
Indianapolis, for 1998–1999; and the Heritage Foundation in the
spring of 1989. He received that Matchette Award twice from
the American Catholic Philosophical Association for outstanding
paper by a younger scholar. Dr. Rasmussen has lectured widely
throughout the United States and Europe and has directed numerous
colloquia and symposia for various educational foundations.
He has served on the Steering Committee of the Ayn Rand Society and
is a member of the Executive Council of the American Catholic
Philosophical Association.
He received the Medal for Outstanding Faculty Achievement from
St. John’s University, Honors Convocation, June 1994. Recently, his
co-authored book, Norms of Liberty, was the subject of a
new book, Reading Rasmussen and Den Uyl: Critical Essays on
"Norms of Liberty" (2008), edited by Aeon J. Skoble.
Dr. Rasmussen is currently working on two books: The
Perfectionist Turn and The Illiberality of Human
Capabilities Liberalism.