Jack Woods

Jack Woods is a Lecturer in Mathematical Philosophy at the School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science, University of Leeds. He serves as Co-Director of the Centre for Metaphysics and Mind and is affiliated with the Centre for Aesthetic, Moral and Political Philosophy and Centre for Theoretical Philosophy. Prior to joining Leeds, he taught at Bilkent University.

His academic training includes graduate work at Princeton University under John Burgess and undergraduate studies at the University of Minnesota with William Hanson.

Woods specializes in foundational questions of normativity across logic, language, and ethics, advocating conventionalist frameworks for logical normativity. His research integrates contemporary analytical methods with historical perspectives from ancient philosophy.

• Logic
• Philosophy of Logic
• Metaethics
• Philosophy of Language
• Ancient Philosophy

He currently supervises PhD researcher Alex Bréhier-Stamatiadis and welcomes new postgraduate students through the University of Leeds' research opportunities program.