So, who wants to write my Epistemology term Paper (be advised, never enroll in it)

[Buffalo Souljah]

Last time I attended class, my professor ended class early in frustration after I asked her repeatedly to clarify "what she meant by 'knowledge' ", which goes to show you how little basis most of this stuff has. This woman was literally angry... I guess, as I put it to another comrade, if you put the workings of someone's entire career on the fritz, they're bound to be a little upset. Any thoughts, consolations, criticisms?

My paper (boy this will be fun...been putting it off for a week now, but I know it'll come back to bite me in the ass) will be on Russell's "definite description", Kripke's "rigid designators" and a reactuion against such devices by one Wittgenstein, who distinguishes between "naming" and "describing".:sleep: Sounds pretty interesting, no? Anyone wanna do my homework for me? C'mon, "communal ownership" and all that!

[The Gallant Gallstone]

Will any of that "communal ownership" transfer to either my GPA or my wallet?

[Agnapostate]

Try taking it to Philosophy Forum (http://www.philosophyforum.com/forum.php) if you haven't already. The more abstract forms of philosophy always pissed me off, and my inability/unwillingness to understand me always pissed my continental phil. instructor off. I simply wasn't in the mood to write insights about Derrida.

[Buffalo Souljah]

^^^Thanks, that's actually quite heplful, ie. "helpful". :blink: This paper-writing nonsense has me all wound up. For Derrida, I honestly can't say I have much sympathy. By extension, I have much sympathy for someone who unknowingly assigns themselves/is assigned a course that covers him. He makes about as much sense as this guy: http://www.arktimes.com/blogs/rockcandy/Image/willywkna.jpg

with the additional fact that Gene Wilder was actually funny. Anyway, back to slaving.:crying:

[Meridian]

Your subject does actually sound interesting, but I haven't got time to help you out too much now (as I also have papers/exams)...

That said, not sure how it is Wittgenstein specifically that distinguishes between naming and describing. I thought that is common practice in language philosophy.

[Dooga Aetrus Blackrazor]

Wasn't Wittgenstein dead before Kripke started writing on rigid designators? And I presume this topic was assigned? Otherwise, it's a rather complicated topic to request someone to write for you - though I doubt most people would anyway.

And those topics have epistemological concerns, but they are more philosophy of language focused. If you can choose your topic, just do something on one of the theories of truth. Correspondence theory is probably the easiest to explain.

Anyway, have fun with that paper. And you were asking an epistemology prof what knowledge is. You wouldn't expect them to be frustrated by your question?

[Buffalo Souljah]

Will any of that "communal ownership" transfer to either my GPA or my wallet? If I had felt the need to give incentives, I would have taken the (nonexistent) bus downtown and found a crackwhore to write my paper for me.



That said, not sure how it is Wittgenstein specifically that distinguishes between naming and describing. I thought that is common practice in language philosophy.Wittgenstein says in the PI that
"naming and describing do not stand on the same level: naming is a preparation for describing. Naming is not yet a move in a language-game – any more than putting the piece in its place on the board is a move in chess." Naming is merely a syntactical "pre-operation" that philosophers have mistakenly pushed to the foreground of the problem of "knowledge". It relates to "knowledge" only in so far as it allows one to make descriptive statements about something. This is my reading of it, at least. He mentions the problem elsewhere, with reference to the arbitrary distinction between "simples" and "compounds".



Wasn't Wittgenstein dead before Kripke started writing on rigid designators?It doesn't matter. "Like a telephone from the beyond", Witti's arguments relate substantially to what Kripke is writing about. There is quite a dialogue between Kripke's writings on RD and the Philosophical Investigations. However, as it seems, I may never get to address that in this paper.


And I presume this topic was assigned? Otherwise, it's a rather complicated topic to request someone to write for you - though I doubt most people would anyway.No. I chose the topic. Everything else in epistemology just seems to boring, contrived and useless to me. Also, I was kidding about having someone write the paper for me.:) I suppose it's just my way of venting my frustrations at such an abstract topic.


And you were asking an epistemology prof what knowledge is. You wouldn't expect them to be frustrated by your question? No. I asked her to clarify what she meant by "knowledge" in the context in which she was using it. There's a difference. Anyway, back to my paper.:(

[The Gallant Gallstone]

If I had felt the need to give incentives, I would have taken the (nonexistent) bus downtown and found a crackwhore to write my paper for me.

If you do that, your professor may become suspicious of the improved quality of your work.

[Buffalo Souljah]

^^She probably would--crackwhores tend to be reactionaries or conformists and not at all critical of prevailing notions or ideas!:lol: (A stereotype, I know, but one I'm willing to burn for.)

[The Gallant Gallstone]

^^She probably would--crackwhores tend to be reactionaries or conformists and not at all critical of prevailing notions or ideas!:lol: (A stereotype, I know, but one I'm willing to burn for.)

LOL... fair enough... good luck with the paper.

[Dean]

^^She probably would--crackwhores tend to be reactionaries or conformists and not at all critical of prevailing notions or ideas!:lol: (A stereotype, I know, but one I'm willing to burn for.)
And burn you shall, this this was unnecessarily insensitive. Infraction for discriminatory language.

Prostitution and drug use by destitute populations ("crack whores") is a terrible epidemic among the working class, and using it as a pejorative is simply not acceptable among leftists.

[Buffalo Souljah]

^^So, what exactly are these infraction things anyway? Couldn't you just as well ask me to edit out offensive content? I mean, we're all adults here.... I don't remember writing that last night, I think I was drunk.

Have you read Huey Newton's dissertation? It's written about the CIA's purposeful introduction of crack and heroin into poor, black communities. Very interesting stuff. He was in the HisCon program at UC Santa Cruz.

[More Fire for the People]

I like studying epistemology but I don't understand most of it very well. I always try to analyze the ideas of the epistemologist through the lens of historical materialism.

[Buffalo Souljah]

I like studying epistemology but I don't understand most of it very well. I always try to analyze the ideas of the epistemologist through the lens of historical materialism.

That's because most of it doesn't make much sense and is relatively useless, except for Hume's introduction of the problem of induction, which is very useful.