Professor of Philosophy, Université de St John de New York

St. John Hall Room B30
Queens, NY 11439

Education
- Ph.D., 1980, Marquette University, Philosophy (Doctoral Dissertation: "Logical Possibility and Necessary Truth: The Viewpoint from an Intentional Logic")
- B.A., 1971, University of Iowa (Majors: Philosophy, Economics)

Areas of Specialization
- Political Philosophy
- Ethics
- Epistemology
- Ontology

Areas of Competence
- History of Modern Philosophy
- Logic
- Philosophy of Language-
- Business Ethics
- Political Economy

Awards
He has been awarded grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Earhart Foundation and was Visiting Research Scholar at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling Green State University, Ohio in the spring of 2001 and the summer of 2008.

Publications
He 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, and 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.
He is coauthor (with Douglas J. Den Uyl) of 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).
Rasmussen also (with Den Uyl) edited The Philosophic Thought of Ayn Rand (1984).

Other
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. Recently, 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.