John Anthony Blair (12 August 1941 – March 7 2024) was a Canadian philosopher.
[1] Along with his colleague Ralph Johnson, he has been credited as one of the founding members of the informal logic movement in North America.
[2][3] Blair was born in Ottawa, Ontario, and attended Fisher Park High School.
[4] He was Canadian Junior Downhill and Alpine Combined ski champion 1958,[5] and played on McGill Intercollegiate Football championship teams (1960 and 1962).
He taught philosophy at the University of Windsor from 1967 until 2006, serving two terms as the head of that department.