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Donald Paul Rutherford
Born1957
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. [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 (with Daniel Garber) of Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy. [5]

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. S2CID  147540423.
  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).