Donald Paul Rutherford | |
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| 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 |
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]