Donald Rutherford (philosopher)

Not to be confused with Donald Rutherford (economist).

Donald Paul Rutherford (born 1957) is a Canadian philosopher and an emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of California, San Diego.^[1] He is known for his research on early modern philosophy.^[2][3][4] Rutherford is a former president of Leibniz Society of North America (2010-14) and a winner of its Essay Prize (1992). He is an editor (with Daniel Garber) of Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy.^[5]

Donald Paul Rutherford
Born	1957 (age 67–68)
Education
Education	University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
Thesis	Leibniz on the Reality of Body (1988)
Doctoral advisor	Janet Broughton
Philosophical work
Era	21st-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Early modern philosophy
Institutions	University of California, San Diego
Main interests	history of ethics

Books

• Leibniz and the Rational Order of Nature, Cambridge University Press, 1995
• The Leibniz-Des Bosses Correspondence, Latin edition, English translation with Introduction and Notes (with Brandon Look), Yale University Press, 2007
• Leibniz: Nature and Freedom, edited with Introduction (co-editor J.A. Cover), Oxford University Press, 2005
• The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Philosophy, edited with Introduction, Cambridge University Press, 2006
• Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, co-editor (with Daniel Garber): vol. 6 (2012), vol. 7 (2015), vol. 8 (2018); editor: vol. 9 (2019)