Donald Rutherford (philosopher)

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{{short description|Canadian philosopher and professor}}

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|region = Western philosophy

|era = 21st-century philosophy

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|name = Donald Paul Rutherford

|birth_date = 1957

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|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

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| education = University of California, Berkeley (PhD)

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|influences = Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Leibniz

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Donald Paul Rutherford (born 1957) is a Canadian philosopher and an emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of California, San Diego.{{cite web |title=Don Rutherford |url=https://helleniccenter.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/drutherford.html |website=helleniccenter.ucsd.edu}} He is known for his research on early modern philosophy.{{cite journal |last1=Brown |first1=Gregory |title=Review of Leibniz: Nature and Freedom |journal=Mind |date=2006 |volume=115 |issue=459 |pages=804–808 |issn=0026-4423|jstor=3840608 |doi=10.1093/mind/fzl804 }}{{cite journal |last1=Mercer |first1=Christia |title=Leibniz and the Rational Order of Nature (review) |journal=Journal of the History of Philosophy |date=1998 |volume=36 |issue=1 |pages=139–141 |doi=10.1353/hph.2008.0948 |s2cid=147540423 |language=en |issn=1538-4586}}{{cite journal |last1=Schmitter |first1=Amy M. |title=Review of Leibniz and the Rational Order of Nature |journal=Mind |date=2001 |volume=110 |issue=438 |pages=542–546 |issn=0026-4423|jstor=2660203 |doi=10.1093/mind/110.438.542 }}

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.{{cite web |title=Rutherford's CV |url=http://philosophyfaculty.ucsd.edu/faculty/rutherford/VITA-RUTHERFORD.pdf}}