Donald Rutherford (philosopher) should not be confused with Donald Rutherford (economist).
| Region: | Western philosophy |
| Era: | 21st-century philosophy |
| Donald Paul Rutherford | |
| Birth Date: | 1957 |
| School Tradition: | Early modern philosophy |
| Institutions: | University of California, San Diego |
| Main Interests: | history of ethics |
| Thesis Title: | Leibniz on the Reality of Body |
| Thesis Url: | https://philpapers.org/rec/RUTLOT |
| Thesis Year: | 1988 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Janet Broughton |
| Education: | University of California, Berkeley (PhD) |
| Influences: | Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Leibniz |
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]