John Woods, a philosopher known for his work in logic and who held teaching and administrative positions at several Canadian universities, has died.

Professor Woods is the author or co-author of nearly twenty books (not counting some textbooks and many edited volumes), including works such as Truth in Fiction: Rethinking your logic (2018), Reasoning error: naturalization of inferential logic (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: Errors of Reason: Essays in Honor of John Woods (2005) and Natural Arguments: A Tribute to John Woods (2016). You can learn more about Wood’s work 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 Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Lethbridge, and Charles S. Peirce Professor Emeritus of Logic in the Department of Computer Science at King’s College London. He previously held positions at the University of Toronto, the University of Victoria, and the University of Calgary, and was a visiting lecturer at many institutions.

He died on August 15, 2024.

(above Dominic McIver Lopes)