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

  • From: Nasha Waights Hickman <baghira24@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: wittrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:51:18 +0100

hehe, well I see some of what I said is quite redundant in light of your
last message Sean, sorry!well, yes, I'm sure you're right. People do like
the names. Have you tried Hintikka by the way? He likes to talk :)

My experience with Oxford guys is they'd rather have a good conversation
with a commoner than a pseudo-conversation with someone supposedly
sophisticated. But I guess at the end of the day I'm playing the same game
with the group here: get faculty behind it so the students will come.

Well, good luck, seems a good enough plan.



On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Nasha Waights Hickman <
baghira24@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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