[Wittrs] Re: Reforming Wittrs -- Volume of Mail, Etc.

  • From: Nasha Waights Hickman <baghira24@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: wittrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:38:01 +0100

Given that I was very recently a mere undergraduate, you may wish to take
what I have to say with a pinch of salt :) For what it's worth however, my
thought is that the solution is almost good but won't quite tackle the
problems.
I take the issues to be:

a) Phil Profs want some guarantee of having high-level discussion
b) Phil Profs will likely have a relatively narrow area of expertise, which
may not be phil of language or Witt but (say) phil of neuroscience, or
epistemology. Consequently they may wish to be selective about the
discussions they are fed messages from. (Also on account of a)).
c) Phil Porfs have too much mail to deal with as it is, and don't want a
mass of emails from random people with a vague interest in Wittgenstein.

Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems to me that  re a) Doctoral
students may have more to say to a given Prof than one of his colleagues,
especially where it comes to Wittgenstein -- a minority sport (I do get that
the message posting is supposed to take account of this); re b ) filtering
by rank is of limited help; re c) if the Profs forum is to reach a
meaningful size, which one hopes it will, would the problem of message
pile-ups not re-emerge? Or did you mean that they would only talk to each
other through a forum and not via email?

Not a bad idea though -- indeed you need something to make this worthwhile
for more established or advanced academics who have very limited time for
this kind of thing. It would be a grand thing if you could get profs across
the world talking, and letting us little 'uns listen in seems like an
excellent idea...the only real prob is the pile up of mail, but perhaps I
misunderstood you there.

Sorry for being so silent on the more important stuff! Will poke my nose in
soon and make a nuisance of myself, as I said I'm just horribly busy trying
to
get practical matters in order at present.

Best,

Natalia


On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 5:58 PM, kirby urner <kirby.urner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Some Americans, I'm sure, won't like this -- but, after all, they
> have A.M. talk radio.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> > Dr. Sean Wilson, Esq.
> > Assistant Professor
>
> I like it but then I think you should certify what a philosophy
> professor is, i.e. don't go by any stale and/or dark ages criteria.
>
> If they haven't studied any Wittgenstein or manifest no clue about
> linguistic twists and turns, then clearly they're not one, at least
> not of philosophy (the grammar of this namespace).  If all they've
> done is live in a global university their whole lives... well then
> that'd be me.  I could help you pick 'em!
>
> http://controlroom.blogspot.com/2008/12/nato-professor.html
> http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2007/06/our-global-u-advertisement.html
>
> Kirby
>
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