Dave Ward
Biographic Data
| ID | 3597537 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dave Ward |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dave |
| FAMILY NAME | Ward |
| SIGNATURE | WARD D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7942-373X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Transformative Embodied Cognition
How should accounts that stress the embodied, embedded and engaged character of human minds accommodate the role of rationality in human subjectivity? Drawing on Matthew Boyle’s contrast between ‘additive’ and ‘transformative’ conceptions of rationality, I argue that contemporary work on embodied cognition tends towards a problematic ‘additivism’ about how mature human capacities to think and act for reasons stand to sensorimotor capacities to sk…
A Critical Guide to the Send Code of Practice 0-25 Years (2015), Janet Goepel, Jackie Scruton and Caroline Wheatley
This review is written amid the 2020 COVID-19 crisis in which the inability of social care to protect the most vulnerable has been cruelly exposed. Hence, I request understanding if my perspective on this manual for practice with Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) young people is permeated with a measure of scepticism and critique which I will suggest is insufficiently reflected in the text. In other words: ‘That’s all well and good …
Sensorimotor Relationalism and Conscious Vision
I argue that the phenomenal properties of conscious visual experiences are properties of the mind-independent objects to which the subject is perceptually related, mediated by the subject's practical understanding of their sensorimotor relation to those properties. This position conjoins two existing strategies for explaining the phenomenal character of perceptual experiences: accounts appealing to perceivers' limited, non-inferential access to t…
What's Lacking in Online Learning? Dreyfus, Merleau-Ponty and Bodily Affective Understanding
Skepticism about the limits of online learning is as old as online learning itself. As with other technologically-driven innovations in pedagogy, there are deep-seated worries that important educational goods might be effaced or obscured by the ways of teaching and learning that online methods allow. One family of such worries is inspired by reflections on the bodily basis of an important kind of understanding, and skepticism over whether this bo…
Introduction
Self-directed Groupwork – social justice through social action and empowerment
Self-directed Groupwork and its values and methodology have taken root in a range of disciplines and in peer, volunteer and professionally facilitated groups addressing a diverse range of issues and across many countries. It has promoted and sustained the mindset and practices needed for achieving social justice through social action and community empowerment. Addressing, in particular, the theories that have informed Self-directed Groupwork, we …
Living Systems
Achieving Transparency
The transparency of perceptual experience has been invoked in support of many views about perception. I argue that it supports a form of enactivism—the view that capacities for perceptual experience and for intentional agency are essentially interdependent. I clarify the perceptual phenomenon at issue, and argue that enactivists should expect to find a parallel instance of transparency in our agentive experience, and that the two forms of transpa…
Working With Parents of Gender-Variant Children
The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link
Making Interprofessional Working Work
Teams are an established part of organisations and are, by definition, ‘groups’—but the business discourse within which they are conceptualised, and within which teamwork takes place, discounts key aspects of groupwork, essentially related to its values. Hence, we argue, the true potential of teamwork is stifled. This is compounded in relation to interprofessional ‘teams’, by the top-down, prescriptive, policy drivers which have led to their sett…
Consciousness in Interaction
Consciousness in Interaction is an interdisciplinary collection with contributions from philosophers, psychologists, cognitive scientists, and historians of philosophy. It revolves around the idea that consciousness emerges from, and impacts on, our skilled interactions with the natural and social context. Section one discusses how phenomenal consciousness and subjective selfhood are grounded on natural and social interactions, and what role brai…
Knowing what we can do
BJSW Critical Commentary
Journal Article BJSW Critical Commentary: What Works in Probation Offender Management: evidence for a new direction?” Get access Dave Ward Dave Ward Professor Dave Ward is Professor of Social and Community Studies at De Montfort University, Leicester, England. His research interests include groupwork, social exclusion and probations and criminal justice, in particular youth offenders. Correspondence to: Professor Dave Ward, Health and Life Scienc…
Empowerment and oppression
The term 'empowerment' has taken on a cachet in social work practice paper links it firmly with the need to tackle oppression and shows that this which is not matched either by precision or clanty of definition. This value base stressing user-led action is present
Pro-form and metaphor—Pro-form and vocative
Empowerment and oppression
The term 'empowerment' has taken on a cachet in social work practice paper links it firmly with the need to tackle oppression and shows that this which is not matched either by precision or clanty of definition. This value base stressing user-led action is present
Sensorimotor Relationalism and Conscious Vision
I argue that the phenomenal properties of conscious visual experiences are properties of the mind-independent objects to which the subject is perceptually related, mediated by the subject's practical understanding of their sensorimotor relation to those properties. This position conjoins two existing strategies for explaining the phenomenal character of perceptual experiences: accounts appealing to perceivers' limited, non-inferential access to t…
Working With Parents of Gender-Variant Children
The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link
What's Lacking in Online Learning? Dreyfus, Merleau-Ponty and Bodily Affective Understanding
Skepticism about the limits of online learning is as old as online learning itself. As with other technologically-driven innovations in pedagogy, there are deep-seated worries that important educational goods might be effaced or obscured by the ways of teaching and learning that online methods allow. One family of such worries is inspired by reflections on the bodily basis of an important kind of understanding, and skepticism over whether this bo…
Knowing what we can do
Pro-form and metaphor—Pro-form and vocative
Empowerment and oppression
The term 'empowerment' has taken on a cachet in social work practice paper links it firmly with the need to tackle oppression and shows that this which is not matched either by precision or clanty of definition. This value base stressing user-led action is present
BJSW Critical Commentary
Journal Article BJSW Critical Commentary: What Works in Probation Offender Management: evidence for a new direction?” Get access Dave Ward Dave Ward Professor Dave Ward is Professor of Social and Community Studies at De Montfort University, Leicester, England. His research interests include groupwork, social exclusion and probations and criminal justice, in particular youth offenders. Correspondence to: Professor Dave Ward, Health and Life Scienc…
Knowing what we can do
Consciousness in Interaction
Consciousness in Interaction is an interdisciplinary collection with contributions from philosophers, psychologists, cognitive scientists, and historians of philosophy. It revolves around the idea that consciousness emerges from, and impacts on, our skilled interactions with the natural and social context. Section one discusses how phenomenal consciousness and subjective selfhood are grounded on natural and social interactions, and what role brai…
Working With Parents of Gender-Variant Children
The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link
Making Interprofessional Working Work
Teams are an established part of organisations and are, by definition, ‘groups’—but the business discourse within which they are conceptualised, and within which teamwork takes place, discounts key aspects of groupwork, essentially related to its values. Hence, we argue, the true potential of teamwork is stifled. This is compounded in relation to interprofessional ‘teams’, by the top-down, prescriptive, policy drivers which have led to their sett…
Living Systems
Achieving Transparency
The transparency of perceptual experience has been invoked in support of many views about perception. I argue that it supports a form of enactivism—the view that capacities for perceptual experience and for intentional agency are essentially interdependent. I clarify the perceptual phenomenon at issue, and argue that enactivists should expect to find a parallel instance of transparency in our agentive experience, and that the two forms of transpa…
Introduction
Self-directed Groupwork – social justice through social action and empowerment
Self-directed Groupwork and its values and methodology have taken root in a range of disciplines and in peer, volunteer and professionally facilitated groups addressing a diverse range of issues and across many countries. It has promoted and sustained the mindset and practices needed for achieving social justice through social action and community empowerment. Addressing, in particular, the theories that have informed Self-directed Groupwork, we …
What's Lacking in Online Learning? Dreyfus, Merleau-Ponty and Bodily Affective Understanding
Skepticism about the limits of online learning is as old as online learning itself. As with other technologically-driven innovations in pedagogy, there are deep-seated worries that important educational goods might be effaced or obscured by the ways of teaching and learning that online methods allow. One family of such worries is inspired by reflections on the bodily basis of an important kind of understanding, and skepticism over whether this bo…
A Critical Guide to the Send Code of Practice 0-25 Years (2015), Janet Goepel, Jackie Scruton and Caroline Wheatley
This review is written amid the 2020 COVID-19 crisis in which the inability of social care to protect the most vulnerable has been cruelly exposed. Hence, I request understanding if my perspective on this manual for practice with Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) young people is permeated with a measure of scepticism and critique which I will suggest is insufficiently reflected in the text. In other words: ‘That’s all well and good …
Sensorimotor Relationalism and Conscious Vision
I argue that the phenomenal properties of conscious visual experiences are properties of the mind-independent objects to which the subject is perceptually related, mediated by the subject's practical understanding of their sensorimotor relation to those properties. This position conjoins two existing strategies for explaining the phenomenal character of perceptual experiences: accounts appealing to perceivers' limited, non-inferential access to t…
Transformative Embodied Cognition
How should accounts that stress the embodied, embedded and engaged character of human minds accommodate the role of rationality in human subjectivity? Drawing on Matthew Boyle’s contrast between ‘additive’ and ‘transformative’ conceptions of rationality, I argue that contemporary work on embodied cognition tends towards a problematic ‘additivism’ about how mature human capacities to think and act for reasons stand to sensorimotor capacities to sk…
Psychology (12 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Embodied and Extended Cognition (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Cognitive science (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (4 works)