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
The Leibniz Society of North America is a philosophical society whose purpose is to promote the study of the philosophy of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. The society publishes The Leibniz Review, organizes an annual conference, sponsors group sessions ...
(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
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