Douglas Rasmussen

Douglas B. Rasmussen est diplômé de l'université de L'Iowa en 1971 (BA) et de l'université de Marquette en 1980 (PHD). Fin connaisseur des écrits de Ayn Rand, il est spécialisé en Ethique, en Philosophie politique, en épistémologie et en Ontologie.

Le Professeur Douglas Rasmussen fut chercheur à l'Heritage Foundation à Washington, DC. Il fut également chercheur au Center for Libertarian Studies, à l'Institute for Humane Studies, au Reason Foundation et à l'Erhart Foundation. Il est membre de l'association philosophique américaine.

Sa philosophie politique repose sur les idées d'Aristote.

Bibliographie

• 1973, "Aristotle and the Defense of the Law of Contradiction," The Personalist 54 (Spring 1973): 149-162

• 1978, avec Douglas Den Uyl, "Nozick on the Randian Argument", The Personalist, April
  • Repris en 1983, In: J. Paul, dir., "Reading Nozick, Essays on Anarchy, State, and Utopia", Totowa: Rowman and Allanheld, pp232–269

• 1983,
  • a. Logical Possibility: An Aristotelian Essentialist Critique, The Thomist 47 (octobre 1983): 513-540
  • b. Rorty, Wittgenstein, and the Nature of Intentionality, Proceedings of the ACPA 57(1983): 152-162
  • c. Douglas Den Uyl, “The Philosophical Importance of Ayn Rand", Modern Age, 27, Winter, pp67-69

• 1984,
  • a. Quine and Aristotelian Essentialism, The New Scholasticism, 58 (Summer), pp316-335
  • b. The Philosophic Thought of Ayn Rand (University of Illinois Press
  • c. avec Douglas J. Den Uyl, dir., The Philosophic Thought of Ayn Rand. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, ISBN 0-252-01033-7 (hardcover), ISBN 0-252-01407-3 (paperback)
  • d. avec Douglas J. Den Uyl, "Ayn Rand's Realism", In: Douglas J. Den Uyl et Douglas Rasmussen, dir., The Philosophic Thought of Ayn Rand. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, pp3-20
  • e. avec Douglas J. Den Uyl, "Life, Teleology, and Eudaimonia in the Ethics of Ayn Rand", In: Douglas J. Den Uyl et Douglas Rasmussen, dir., The Philosophic Thought of Ayn Rand. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, ISBN 0-252-01033-7 (hardcover), ISBN 0-252-01407-3, pp63–80

• 1986, Ideology, Objectivity, and Political Theory, In: John K. Roth et Robert C. Whittemore, dir., Ideology and American Experience: Essays on Theory and Practice in the United States, Washington, D.C.: Washington Institute Press

• 1987, The Catholic Bishops and the Economy: A Debate (Social Philosophy and Policy Center and Transaction Books

• 1988, "John Hospers and the activity of philosophy", In: The Free and Noble Spirit: A Festschrift for John Hospers. Reason Papers, n°13, Spring, pp3–7

• 1990, "Liberalism and Natural End Ethics," American Philosophical Quarterly 27 (avril 1990): 153-161

• 1991, Liberty and Nature: An Aristotelian Defense of Liberal Order, Open Court

• 1992,
  • a. On the topic Teleology and the Foundation of Value, The Monist, janvier
  • b. Political Legitimacy and Discourse Ethics, International Philosophical Quarterly 32 (mars 1992): 17-34
  • c. avec Douglas J. Den Uyl, Liberty and Nature
  • d. "Capitalism and Morality: The Role of Practical Reason", In: Robert W. McGee, dir., "Business Ethics & Common Sense", Westport: Conn.: Quorum Books, pp31-44

• 1994, "The Significance for Cognitive Realism of the Thought of John Poinsot", American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Vol 68, n°3, pp410-424

• 1995, avec Tibor Machan, dir., Liberty for the 21st Century: Essays in Contemporary Libertarian Thought, Rowman and Littlefield

• 1997,
  • a. Liberalism Defended: The Challenge of Post-Modernity, Edward Elgar
  • b. Perfectionism, In: Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics, Vol. III (Academic Press, 1997), pp. 473-480

• 1999, "Human Flourishing and the Appeal to Human Nature," Social Philosophy & Policy 16 (Winter 1999): 1-43

• 2001,
  • a. "Why Individual Rights?", In: Tibor R. Machan, dir., Individual Rights Reconsidered, Hoover, pp113-136
  • b. Natural Law and Natural Rights: Bastiat Vindicated, Journal des économistes et des études humaines, Vol 11, n°2-3, juin

• 2002,
  • a. avec Douglas J. Den Uyl, “Aristotelianism, Commerce, and the Liberal Order”, In: A. Tessitore, dir., "Aristotle and Modern Politics", Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press
  • b. "Rand on obligation and value", The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies, Vol 4, n°1, Fall, pp69–86

• 2003, avec Douglas J. Den Uyl, "Self-Ownership", Political Economy of The Good Society, Vol. 12 No. 3

• 2006, “Regarding Choice and the Foundation of Morality: Reflections on Rand’s Ethics”, Vol 7, n°2, The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies, Spring, pp309-328

• 2007,
  • a. Visible and Invisible Hands. Liberal Market Orders Recognize the Importance of Self-Directedness to Morality, The Freeman, April, Vol 57, n°3
  • b. "The Aristotelian Significance of the Section Titles of Atlas Shrugged: A Brief Considerations of Rand’s View of Logic and Reality", In: Edward W. Younkins, dir., "Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged: A Philosophical and Literary Companion", Aldershot: Ashgate, pp33–45
  • c. “Rand’s Metaethics: Rejoinder to Hartford”, The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies, 8. 2, Spring, pp307-316

• 2009,
  • a. avec Douglas J. Den Uyl, Retreat from Liberalism: Human Capabilities and Public Reasoning, Journal des économistes et des études humaines, décembre, Vol 15, n°1
  • b. avec Douglas J. Den Uyl, “Making Room for Business Ethics: Rights as Metanorms of Market and Moral Values”, The Journal of Private Enterprise, 24.2, pp1-19

• 2010,
  • a. "Why Ayn Rand? Answers and Some Questions for Discussion", Cato Unbound, janvier
  • b. "Rand’s Philosophic Thought: A Response to Professors Long, Huemer, and Badhwar", Cato Unbound, janvier

Littérature secondaire

• 2008, Aeon J. Skoble, dir., Reading Rasmussen and Den Uyl: Critical Essays on Norms of Liberty, Lexington Books

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