John Woods (logician)

John Hayden Woods FRSC (16 March 1937 – 15 August 2024) was a Canadian logician and philosopher.

Together with Douglas N. Walton, Woods authored a number of books and papers on fallacies.

According to Frans H. van Eemeren, who calls this body of work the Woods–Walton approach, this is "the most continuous and extensive post-Hamblin contribution to the study of fallacies".

[2] A Festschrift honoring and discussing Woods' work was published in 2005 by the University of Toronto Press.

[4] Moreover, Woods has been a co-editor (with Dov Gabbay) of the eleven-volume Handbook of the History of Logic, published by North-Holland (now Elsevier), as well as editor, with Gabbay and Paul Thagard, of the sixteen-volume Handbook of the Philosophy of Science, by the same publisher.