Roger A Ward
Biographic Data
| ID | 5855978 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roger A Ward |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roger A |
| FAMILY NAME | Ward |
| SIGNATURE | WARD R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgetown College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
I’ve never felt more welcome and hopeful here’
The Work of Community in Raposa's Theosemiotic
Michael Raposa says an obligation lies at the root of his writing Theosemiotic: Religion, Reading, and the Gift of Meaning (2020). The chapter introducing and coining the term ‘theosemiotic’ in his earlier work Peirce's Philosophy of Religion (1989), was like a “promissory note” for a future development of that idea.1Theosemiotic wonderfully pays the bill. Although this essay is first and foremost an attempt to illuminate the meaning and internal…
Peirce and Religion
Charles Sanders Peirce is one of the most original voices in American philosophy. His scientific career and his goal of proving scientific logic provide rich material for philosophical development. Peirce was also a life-long Christian and member of the Episcopal Church. Roger Ward traces the impact of Peirce’s religion and Christianity on the development of Peirce’s philosophy. Peirce’s religious framework is a key to his development of pragmati…
Peirce and politics
Charles Sanders Peirce, a profound philosopher and logician, mortgaged the result of his enquiry on the future possibility of a community of inquirers. Peirce was not a democrat, nor a believer in the trustworthiness of common opinion, yet his agapistic metaphysics makes the incorporation of individual inquirers into the scientific community a pragmatic necessity. In this paper I attempt to bring out Peirce’s political dimension, which is embedde…
Eyewitness Performance in Different Psychological Types
A study of 112 subjects examined the performance on a complex memory task by various Jungian psychological types. Although differences did not emerge in terms of overall accuracy, they did emerge in terms of susceptibility to postevent information. Introverts and intuitives, alone and in combination, were found to be more prone to accept both misleading and consistent postevent information, rendering them more likely to be inaccurate in the first…
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Eyewitness Performance in Different Psychological Types
A study of 112 subjects examined the performance on a complex memory task by various Jungian psychological types. Although differences did not emerge in terms of overall accuracy, they did emerge in terms of susceptibility to postevent information. Introverts and intuitives, alone and in combination, were found to be more prone to accept both misleading and consistent postevent information, rendering them more likely to be inaccurate in the first…
Peirce and politics
Charles Sanders Peirce, a profound philosopher and logician, mortgaged the result of his enquiry on the future possibility of a community of inquirers. Peirce was not a democrat, nor a believer in the trustworthiness of common opinion, yet his agapistic metaphysics makes the incorporation of individual inquirers into the scientific community a pragmatic necessity. In this paper I attempt to bring out Peirce’s political dimension, which is embedde…
Peirce and Religion
Charles Sanders Peirce is one of the most original voices in American philosophy. His scientific career and his goal of proving scientific logic provide rich material for philosophical development. Peirce was also a life-long Christian and member of the Episcopal Church. Roger Ward traces the impact of Peirce’s religion and Christianity on the development of Peirce’s philosophy. Peirce’s religious framework is a key to his development of pragmati…
The Work of Community in Raposa's Theosemiotic
Michael Raposa says an obligation lies at the root of his writing Theosemiotic: Religion, Reading, and the Gift of Meaning (2020). The chapter introducing and coining the term ‘theosemiotic’ in his earlier work Peirce's Philosophy of Religion (1989), was like a “promissory note” for a future development of that idea.1Theosemiotic wonderfully pays the bill. Although this essay is first and foremost an attempt to illuminate the meaning and internal…
I’ve never felt more welcome and hopeful here’
Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (2 works) · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work) · Child and Animal Learning Development (1 work)