John Woods (1937-2024)

John Woods, a philosopher well-known for his work in logic, and who held faculty and administrative positions at several Canadian universities, has died. Professor Woods authored or co-authored nearly twenty books (not counting a few textbooks and many edited collections), including works such as Truth in Fiction: Rethinking its Logic (2018), Errors of Reasoning: Naturalizing the Logic of Inference (2013), The Death of Argument: Fallacies in Agent-Based Reasoning (2004), and Paradox and Paraconsistency: Conflict Resolution in the Abstract Sciences (2003), among others. His work is also the subject of two festschrifts: Mistakes of Reason: Essays in Honour of John Woods (2005) and Natural Arguments: a Tribute to John Woods (2016). You can learn more about Wood’s works here and here. At the time of his death, Woods was Honorary Professor of Logic at the University of British Columbia and Director of its Abductive Systems Group, President Emeritus and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Lethbridge, and the Charles S. Peirce Professor Emeritus of Logic in the Department of Computer Science at King’s College London. He held positions previously at the University of Toronto, the University of Victoria, and the University of Calgary, and had visiting appointments at many institutions. He died on August 15th, 2024. (via Dominic McIver Lopes)
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