Roger Ward
Biographic Data
| ID | 6249896 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roger Ward |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roger |
| FAMILY NAME | Ward |
| SIGNATURE | WARD R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgetown College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Balancing Impartiality and Advocacy
Universities increasingly rely on ombuds offices as informal, impartial mechanisms for addressing conflict and strengthening institutional trust. Yet the ombuds role is frequently shaped by tension among impartiality, advocacy, and legal accountability. This paper examines the evolution of the Office of the Ombuds at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) as a practice‐based case study of how these tensions are navigated within a public rese…
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 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…
Rethinking our Time
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Rethinking our Time
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…
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’
Balancing Impartiality and Advocacy
Universities increasingly rely on ombuds offices as informal, impartial mechanisms for addressing conflict and strengthening institutional trust. Yet the ombuds role is frequently shaped by tension among impartiality, advocacy, and legal accountability. This paper examines the evolution of the Office of the Ombuds at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) as a practice‐based case study of how these tensions are navigated within a public rese…
Political science (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Confidentiality (1 work) · Conflict Management and Negotiation (1 work) · Conflict of interest (1 work) · Conflict resolution (1 work) · Dispute resolution (1 work)