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

[1] Rasmussen's areas of scholarly interest include Political Philosophy, Ethics, Ontology, Epistemology, Business Ethics, and Political Economy.

[3] Rasmussen coauthored (with Douglas Den Uyl) several books: Liberty and Nature: An Aristotelian Defense of Liberal Order (1991);[4] Liberalism Defended: The Challenge of Post-Modernity (1997);[5] and Norms of Liberty: A Perfectionist Basis for Non-Perfectionist Politics (2005).

[6] He also co-edited (with Den Uyl) The Philosophic Thought of Ayn Rand (1984).

[7] 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.