Donald Paul Rutherford (born 1957) is a Canadian philosopher and an emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. He is known for his research on early modern philosophy. 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.

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)