Barry Ward
Arts and Humanities · The Ohio State University
Publications
38
Citations
164
Est. group size
—
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
53
Publishing since 1973
Barry Ward's work is centered on philosophy of science and critical thinking, including topics like inductive reasoning, confirmation of scientific laws, and the classic 'Raven Paradox' about how evidence supports general claims. He has also written introductory materials on critical thinking and logical argument analysis, and has some publications touching on agricultural economics and law. The bibliographic record suggests a mix of philosophical scholarship and educational/textbook-style writing.
Publication output over the last decade has been uneven, with a cluster of outputs in 2017 and again in 2024, but sparse activity in the years between.
Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026
- Regenerative Agriculture and Climate Protection – High Expectations, Low Delivery
EuroChoices · 2025
- The New Critical Thinking
2024
- Reconstructing and Identifying Deductive Arguments
2024
- Inductive Arguments
2024
- Reconstructing and Identifying Arguments, Revisited
2024
- Resolving the Raven Paradox: Simple Random Sampling, Stratified Random Sampling, and Inference to Best Explanation
Philosophy of Science · 2022
- Why Confirm Laws?
The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science · 2021
- Crossing Lines: Integrating Law and Economics in Farmland Leasing Workshops
Journal of Extension · 2018
- Introduction to Critical Thinking
2017
- Probability and Frequency
2017
- The New Critical Thinking: An Empirically Informed Introduction
ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam) · 2017
- Reconstructing and Identifying Deductive Arguments
2017
- Reconstructing and Identifying Arguments, Revisited
2017
- and Literature in West Virginia
2016
- EuroChoices×1
- Philosophy of Science×1
- Journal of Extension×1
- ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam)×1
- The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science×1
- Declan Smithies
Arts and Humanities · The Ohio State University
- Michael Bergmann
Arts and Humanities · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Adam Leite
Arts and Humanities · Indiana University
- Jamin Asay
Psychology · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Christopher Pincock
Arts and Humanities · The Ohio State University
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.
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