Donald Paul Rutherford (born 1957) is a Canadian philosopher and a professor of philosophy at the

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. He is known for his research on

early modern philosophy Early modern philosophy (also classical modern philosophy) Richard Schacht, ''Classical Modern Philosophers: Descartes to Kant'', Routledge, 2013, p. 1: "Seven men have come to stand out from all of their counterparts in what has come to be known ...

. Rutherford is a former president of

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(2010-14) and a winner of its Essay Prize (1992). He is an editor of ''Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy''.

Books

* ''

Leibniz and the Rational Order of Nature ''Leibniz and the Rational Order of Nature'' is a 1995 book about the concept of order in Leibniz's thought by Donald Rutherford. Reception John Whipple from University of Illinois at Chicago calls the book "one of the most important books abou ...

'', 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)

References

Canadian philosophers Philosophy academics Living people Descartes scholars Spinoza scholars Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz scholars University of California, San Diego faculty University of California, Berkeley faculty 1957 births Hobbes scholars {{Canada-academic-bio-stub