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From: Sean Wilson <whoooo26505@xxxxxxxxx>
To: wittrsamr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 18:56:47 -0800 (PST)
... alright, I'm trying to fool around with structured discussion topics. I 
don't really know how to do this, so expect plenty of "reforms.' But here is 
what I have so far.

1. I think it would be prudent to have structured discussions about once a 
month. People who criticize this list as being far more about personal 
aspirations than about substantive discussion of Wittgenstein's writings seem 
to have a valid point. 

2. But I don't want to create an administrative solution here. I want a 
market-driven one. I'm not going to shape and control these things.  All I'm 
going to do is what FDR promised for capitalism: I'm just going to set up the 
infrastructure (and the rules of the game).  If people here are too lazy and 
uninterested, well, we'll have to reply to our critics by quoting the 
Nebuchadnezzar of football, Brett Favre, who often says, "It is what it is." 

3. Here are the rules as I presently conceive them: 
http://ludwig.squarespace.com/wittrcal/ ; (feel free to offer improvements!)

4. Here is our calendar page: http://ludwig.squarespace.com/wittrs-cal

5. What I am anticipating is that someone comes along and says something like: 
I propose to discuss W's views on religion. Let's read X, Y and Z. And then 
someone will reply in some manner (let's do it later; let's read Q instead; ok, 
fine; etc.). And when two or more heads agree to a project, the thing is "on"

I'm hoping we won't have more than 1 a month (or at least more than 1 going on 
in any 2 week span) because people are busy and the discussion will turn too 
local in a hurry.  I know myself that I might participate in a discussion even 
if i don't like it if I know it is in advance and lots of people will do it. So 
let's keep the calling of a discussion topic for special things. Things we 
don't know and are curious about, or things we violently disagree over and want 
to have a "trial" of sorts. (not the right word).

Also, I suppose that in the future, we'll discuss the discussion PLANS on amr, 
but have the discussion itself in COMMONS. I'm trying to keep COMMONS down to 
no more than 5 mails a day. If we start this, the discussion week could swamp 
that quota. So mails like this in the future I'll keep on amr.     
 
Yours in need of feedback 

Dr. Sean Wilson, Esq.
Assistant Professor
Wright State University
Personal Website: http://seanwilson.org
SSRN papers: http://ssrn.com/author=596860
Discussion Group: http://seanwilson.org/wittgenstein.discussion.html 




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