Donald Paul Rutherford | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1957 (age 67–68) |
| Education | |
| Education | University of California, Berkeley (PhD) |
| Thesis | Leibniz on the Reality of Body (1988) |
| Doctoral advisor | Janet Broughton |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Early modern philosophy |
| Institutions | University of California,San Diego |
| 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]