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John Woods (Sydney Mayor)
John Woods may refer to: Education * John Woods (logician) (born 1937), Canadian professor of logic * John Woods (oceanographer) (born 1939), British professor of oceanography * John E. Woods (historian) (active since 1970), American professor of Iranian and Central Asian history * John E. Woods (translator) (active since 1978), translator of literature from German to English Entertainment * John Joseph Woods (1849–1934), composer of music for national anthem of New Zealand * Johnny Silvo (John Woods, 1936–2011), British folk and blues singer * John Levene (born John Woods in 1941), British actor * John Woods, a Scottish showman who exhibited the Tay Whale around Britain in the 1880s Politics * John Woods (Pennsylvania politician) (1761–1816), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania * John Woods (Ohio politician) (1794–1855), U.S. Representative from Ohio * John M. Woods (1839–1927), American politician in Massachusetts * John Woods (Australian politician) (1822–1892), Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Woods (logician)
John Hayden Woods (born 1937) is a Canadian logician and philosopher. He currently holds the position of Director of the Abductive Systems Group at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and is The UBC Honorary Professor of Logic. He is also affiliated with the Group on Logic, Information and Computation within the Department of Informatics at King's College London where he has held the Charles S. Peirce Visiting Professorship of Logic position since 2001. Woods is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, life member of the Association of Fellows of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, and President Emeritus of the University of Lethbridge. Woods' education includes a BA and MA in philosophy from the University of Toronto, and a 1965 PhD in philosophy from the University of Michigan where his adviser was Arthur Burks. Together with Douglas N. Walton, Woods has authored a number of books and papers on fallacies. According to Frans H. van Eemeren, who calls this bod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |