Donald Rutherford (philosopher)

Not to be confused with Donald Rutherford (economist).

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

Donald Paul Rutherford (born 1957) is a Canadian philosopher and an emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. He is known for his research on early modern philosophy. 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.

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)