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

University of California, San Diego The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego or colloquially, UCSD) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in San Diego, California. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Insti ...

. 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 Leibniz Society of North America (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'', 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