Donald Rutherford (philosopher)

Donald Paul Rutherford (born 1957) is a Canadian philosopher and a 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 of Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy.[5]

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
Influences Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Leibniz

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

1. "Don Rutherford". helleniccenter.ucsd.edu.
2. Brown, Gregory (2006). "Review of Leibniz: Nature and Freedom". Mind. 115 (459): 804–808. doi:10.1093/mind/fzl804. ISSN 0026-4423. JSTOR 3840608.
3. Mercer, Christia (1998). "Leibniz and the Rational Order of Nature (review)". Journal of the History of Philosophy. 36 (1): 139–141. doi:10.1353/hph.2008.0948. ISSN 1538-4586.
4. Schmitter, Amy M. (2001). "Review of Leibniz and the Rational Order of Nature". Mind. 110 (438): 542–546. doi:10.1093/mind/110.438.542. ISSN 0026-4423. JSTOR 2660203.
5. "Rutherford's CV" (PDF).