Hello. My name is Sean Wilson. I'm an assistant professor at Wright State University. I realize that this is a moderated list. I was hoping you might inform your members about a new Wittgenstein-centered discussion group that may interest some of them. if Epistemology wanted to do a notification of this sort in our group, we would surely welcome it. Thanks so much and please accept my apologies for this intrusion.
WHAT IS THE GROUP? The group is for Wittgenstein-learned or inspired people who want to discuss ANY intellectual idea whatsoever. The premise of the group is that people who "get Wittgenstein" make for better intellectual discourse. Of course, we also accept those who are just curious about Wittgenstein and want to discuss only him. The group spends about half of its time discussing Wittgenstein and about half discussing a range of other ideas, mostly in philosophy. (I would like to see the discussion branch into other fields, such as law, linguistics, and social science. I'm looking for more participants to help). WHAT IS THE GROUP NAME? We call ourselves Wittgenstein's Aftermath -- or "Wittrs," for short. Here is our webpage: http://seanwilson.org/wittgenstein.discussion.html WHY IS THIS GROUP DIFFERENT? Our group's infrastructure is really great. We have an email list that gets piped into a message board. Any user who sends a message to the list will have it automatically appear on the board. Conversely, anyone who replies on the board will have the message go to the list -- without double posting! Hence, members can participate in the same discussion using either emails or a message-board format. We also have a number of web archives that allow one to participate from those venues as well (see below). Finally, note that the message board allows you to subscribe only to particular discussion topics. This would allow you to only receive mails for those issues that concern you. (Here is our message board: http://seanwilson.org/forum/ ) WHO CAN BE A MEMBER OF THE GROUP? Anyone who is inspired by, knowledgeable of, or curious about Ludwig Wittgenstein -- and who sees Wittgenstein as a polar star in the intellectual universe. This does not mean that one has to agree with Wittgenstein's ideas; half-blooded Wittgensteinians are as welcome as full-blooded. In fact, you can reject Wittgenstein altogether. But what is key is that you appropriately know of his ideas and find him to be an important and substantial part of intellectual culture. So the only people who are excluded from membership are those who dislike Wittgenstein personally or believe his ideas foolish and irrelevant, or who don't know anything about his ideas and are content staying that way. WHO WOULD WE LIKE TO SEE RECRUITED? We would like to have more professors from various fields. Ideally, Wittgenstein-inspired scholars doing work outside philosophy are as welcome as those doing work inside the field. We would also like to have people who could contribute messages about conferences and papers, and relevant news. Good students are of course always welcome. HOW CAN I JOIN? There are two ways. You can go to this page and sign up (lower-left corner): http://www.freelists.org/list/wittrs . Or, you can register with the message board here: http://seanwilson.org/forum/index.php?t=register&S=72f79b4325322987e49022f45d3d5ebf . Either way, you will get you signed into the group. (NOTE: You do not need to become a member to read Wittrs. Our archives are public.) If you need assistance joining, email the group owner: [email protected]. WITTRS ON THE WEB: Our group has several public archives. You can participate from the web if you like (after you have joined). 1. WEB VIEW: -- http://tinyurl.com/ku7ga4 2. GOOGLE: -- http://groups.google.com/group/Wittrs 3. YAHOO: -- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Wittrs/ 4. FREELIST: -- http://www.freelists.org/archive/wittrs/09-2009 (To post a message from any of these services requires its own separate registration. You create a login and a password. You must be logged in to post. This is separate from the the process of joining Wittrs. It's an extra step. Please note that Yahoo and Freelist have more limited utility. See Troubleshooting: http://ludwig.squarespace.com/wittrsts ). SEARCHING WITTRS: Information on searching Wittrs can be found at our archive page: http://seanwilson.org/wittgenstein.discussion.html. POSTING POLICY: Wittrs has a posting policy. Contributions must be civil. Talk about ideas only, not people. To see a more detailed explanation, go here: http://ludwig.squarespace.com/dbhelp/ QUALITY OF THE PARTICIPANTS: Wittrs has a wide variety of participants. Some are scholars in the academy. Some have even authored literary works. But many are just students or people interested in intellectual ideas. As a result, the quality of the messages will vary. We suggest you get a feel for who you might want to discuss with. Not every post needs replied to (let alone read). Wittrs is committed to the idea that anyone should be able to post no matter their education or title. Think of Wittrs as a store: although many items (messages) may be offered for your consideration, you need only concern yourself with the one(s) good enough to capture your fancy. Regards and Thanks! Dr. Sean Wilson, Esq. Assistant Professor Wright State University Redesigned Website: http://seanwilson.org SSRN papers: http://ssrn.com/author=596860 Twitter: http://twitter.com/seanwilsonorg Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/seanwilsonorg New Discussion Group: http://seanwilson.org/wittgenstein.discussion.html --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Epistemology" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/epistemology?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
