Joseph Henry Woodger (2 May 1894 - 8 March 1981) was a British theoretical biologist and philosopher of biology whose attempts to make biological sciences more rigorous and empirical was significantly influential to the philosophy of biology in the twentieth century. The prominent philosopher of science, Karl Popper claimed, "Woodger… influenced and stimulated the evolution of the philosophy of science in Britain and in the United States as hardly anybody else."[1] Woodger retired in 1959 from Middlesex Hospital medical school as emeritus professor of biology. He died in 1981.
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