Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

• Sent off three recommendation letters for a student.

Conferences

• Emailed Patrick about abstracts for the Dharmakirti conference.

Miscellaneous

Sunday, December 29, 2013

Reading

• Actually managed to sit in Gwen's room this morning after she woke up and before breakfast and read about a chapter in Malink.

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Saturday, December 28, 2013

I had hoped to go out to the office yesterday afternoon for a few hours. That did not happen.

Reading

Writing

• I recently joined the blog Letters from the Editors, and I published my first two posts today: an introduction and What Makes a Good Referee Report?.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Monday, December 23, 2013

I'm home until Jan. 6 with Gwen, due to university/daycare holidays, so I'm not really expecting to get any work done, so I might be sporadic with these posts. However, she went down for an early nap, and after getting a bunch of C&I work done, I managed to respond to some emails in my inbox.

Reading

• I tried bringing Malink to the playground, but only got a few paragraphs read.

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

• A bit of IEP editorial work.

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

• Emails, oh joy.

Saturday-Sunday, December 21-22, 2013

Reading

Writing

• Finished the first-pass of data-entering/crunching for Zipf. Whoo! I got something work-related done on the weekend!

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Friday, December 20, 2013

Reading

Writing

• Zipf's law and medieval onomastics.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

• Finished reading Steinkellner.
• Watched/listened to the video of last week's seminar to be caught up for this week's.
• Went to seminar.
• Finished reading student responses (oops, forgot to do that before seminar).

Conferences

• Collected receipts for Pamplona reimbursement.

Miscellaneous

Thursday, December 19, 2013

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

• Read student responses for this week.
• Read the first half of Oetke, "Svabhavapratibandha and the Types of Reasoning in Dharmakirti's Theory of Inference", and skimmed the rest.
• Met with Birgit to discuss tomorrow's seminar.
• Read Steinkellner, "On the Interpretation of the Svabhavahetuh".

Conferences

Miscellaneous

• Took a few hours in the afternoon off to spend time with Joel w/o Gwen, and just recover from the last six weeks or so.

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Reading

Writing

• Suddenly ended up writing the first four pages of a paper on Zipf's Law and onomastic corpora. Uh, how did that happen?

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

• Have nearly finished reading Eltschinger for class on Fri. Am so totally not prepared for meeting with Birgit tomorrow to discuss said class.

Conferences

• Spent most of the day traveling back from Pamplona.

Miscellaneous

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Reading

Writing

• Suddenly ended up writing the first four pages of a paper on Zipf's Law and onomastic corpora. Uh, how did that happen?

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

• Have nearly finished reading Eltschinger for class on Fri. Am so totally not prepared for meeting with Birgit tomorrow to discuss said class.

Conferences

• Spent most of the day traveling back from Pamplona.

Miscellaneous

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

• Day 2 of the Pamplona conference.

Miscellaneous

Monday, December 16, 2013

Reading

Writing

• As of the DMLBS conf. I have come up with a very cunning and devious plan. It involves some writing-up-of-ground-work, which I worked on some today.
• I haz a cunning plan, and it has resulted in a blog.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

• Read over last week's student responses.
• Catching up on the reading from last week's seminar, and trying to get a start on this week's:
  • Claudius Nenninger, "samanyato drstam anumanam: Analogical Reasoning in Early Nyaya-Vaisesika".
  • Birgit's translation of an extract of Dharmakirti's Nyayabindu (Drop of Reasoning).
  • Starting reading Vincent Eltschinger's "Dharmakirti" chapter.

Conferences

• Off to Pamplona for the VII Navarra Workshop On Vagueness.
• While on the way, wrote my slides.

Miscellaneous

• Slept the entire flight from Frankfurt to Madrid. Was intending to write slides. Oh well.

Saturday, December 14, 2013

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

• Looking for JoLLI referees again.

Teaching

Conferences

• DMLBS conference day 3.

Miscellaneous

Friday, December 13, 2013

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

• Sought out one more referee for 1st JoLLI assignment.
• Got a new JoLLI assignment. Whew! They're coming faster than I thought they would. Invited a referee for it.

Teaching

Conferences

• DMLBS conference

Miscellaneous

Thursday, December 12, 2013

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

• Afternoon: Headed from London to Oxford for DMLBS conference, and attended opening lecture in the evening.

Miscellaneous

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

• Searching for referees again.
• Sat in a pub and read more in Malink.

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Monday, December 9, 2013

There's a limit to how much you can do while sitting in a cafe and entertaining a 2 year old, but nonetheless, I did actually manage to get work done.

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

• Continued reading Malink's book.
• Got another JoLLI submission assigned to me, so sent off referee requests for it.

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

• This was a busy weekend for accumulating email, most of which I managed to get through.

Friday, December 6, 2013

Leaving work right after class today in order to head to the UK for Yule Ball!

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

• Reviewed student assignments for discussion; reviewed monotonicity notes.
• Taught. Was planning to leave 5 min. early. Left instead 4 min. late, and then the bus was late, so it was a sprint to the station, but luckily the train to Mannheim was late, so I made it.

Conferences

Miscellaneous

• Remembered a few more maps, etc., to print before traveling.

Thursday, Decenber 5, 2013

Reading

Writing

• 53 pages of PoV revising/proofreading. Golly it's awful in places. And deadly dull in places. But, this means I was able to send it off to Mark and Antonio who volunteered to give it a test read.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

• Read over student contributions for lecture tomorrow.
• Wrote up notes on monotonicity & defeasible reasoning. (Why is it the firefox's spellchecker will accept both 'feasible' and 'indefeasible', but not 'defeasible'?)

Conferences

Miscellaneous

• Printed off all our travel docs for England next week. For some reason, there's far fewer than usual.

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Reading

• Combed through all the rest of the open JSTOR tabs I have regarding potential sources for Indian names, of which the following are the ones that I did more than ctrl + f over:
  • Ranabir Chakravarti, "Early Medieval Bengal and the Trade in Horses: A Note", Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient Vol. 42, No. 2, 1999.
  • John Stratton Hawley, "The Early Sūr Sāgar and the Growth of the Sūr Tradition", Journal of the American Oriental Society Vol. 99, No. 1 (1979).
  • G. V. Scammell, "After Da Gama: Europe and Asia since 1498", Modern Asian Studies Vol. 34, No. 3, Jul., 2000.
  • Barrie M. Morrison, "Sources, Methods and Concepts in Early Indian History", Pacific Affairs Vol. 41, No. 1, Spring, 1968.
  • T.H. Holditch, "Notes on Ancient and Mediæval Makran", The Geographical Journal, Vol. 7, No. 4, Apr., 1896.
  • Alain Desoulières, "Mughal Diplomacy in Gujarat (1533-1534) in Correia's 'Lendas da India'", Modern Asian Studies Vol. 22, No. 3, 1988: This one actually had a period feminine name!
  • A.M. Shah & R.G. Shroff, "The Vahīvancā Bāroṭs of Gujarat: A Caste of Genealogists and Mythographers", The Journal of American Folklore vol. 71
  • Rosalind O'Hanlon, "Kingdom, Household and Body History, Gender and Imperial Service under Akbar", Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 41, No. 5, Sep., 2007.
  • Michael H. Fisher, "Political Marriage Alliances at the Shi 'i Court of Awadh", Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 25, No. 4, Oct., 1983.
  • George Birdwood, "The Rajputs in the History of Hindustan, Part 1", Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, Vol. 60: This had a reference to Udai Singh's sister (named!) which led me to the names of four of his wives/concubines, so now I've actually got a handful of 16th C Rajput feminine names!
  • Mary Shepherd Slusser, "On a Sixteenth-Century Pictorial Pilgrim's Guide from Nepal", Archives of Asian Art, Vol. 38, 1985, because how cool is that?

Writing

• Worked on the PoV translation some more. Wow, it's messy...
• Um, yeah, an article on 16th C Rajput women's names.

Revising

Refereeing

• A bit of IEP work.

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

• Sorted out travel to/from Yule.

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Reading

• Spent some of the morning surfing JSTOR for information on pre-1600 Rajput/Rajasthani feminine names, which resulted in reading/skimming the following:
  • Derryl N. MacLean, "Review of Living Without Silver by John S. Deyell", Pacific Affairs, Vol. 67, No. 1, Spring, 1994.
  • Stephen P. Blake, "Review ofLiving Without Silver, by John S. Deyell", Journal of Asian Studies Vol. 51, No. 4, Nov., 1992.
  • R. Burn, "Review of The Dynastic History of Northern India: Early Medieval Period. Vol. II by H. C. Ray", Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society No. 1, Jan., 1938.
  • J. Allan, "Review of The Dynastic History of Northern India: Early Mediæval Period. Vol. I by H. C. Ray", Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society No. 4, Oct., 1933.
  • E. G., "Review of India: Art and Culture, 1300-1900 by Stuart Cary Welch", Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 115, No. 3.
  • Molly Emma Aitken, "Pardah and Portrayal: Rajput Women as Subjects, Patrons, and Collectors", Artibus Asiae> Vol. 62, No. 2, 2002; most of this is 17th-19th C, but it's still a very interesting discussion of when and how women were named.
  • Kashi N. Singh, "The Territorial Basis of Medieval Town and Village Settlement in Eastern Uttar Pradesh, India", Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 58, No. 2, Jun., 1968.
  • Sumit Guha, "Speaking Historically: The Changing Voices of Historical Narration in Western India, 1400-1900", The American Historical Review Vol. 109, No. 4 (October 2004); interesting, but again focusing on 17th C and later material.
  • Debarati Halder and K. Jaishankar, "PROPERTY RIGHTS OF HINDU WOMEN: A FEMINIST REVIEW OF SUCCESSION LAWS OF ANCIENT, MEDIEVAL, AND MODERN INDIA", Journal of Law and Religion, Vol. 24, No. 2, 2008-2009.

Writing

• I need to finish up my PoV paper by the end of the year, and thus I'd like to have a decent working transcription/translation by then too. Having solicited some willing readers from the Med. Logic group on FB, I spent some time today trying to fill in holes before I send them what I've got. Made good progress.

Revising

Refereeing

• Took Malink's book to the cafeteria and started reading it over a bowl of absolutely fantastic pumpkin-chili soup.

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Monday, December 2, 2013

Reading

• Teaching prep: Nonmonotonic reasoning in SEP.

Writing

• It felt like it had been a long time since I'd done any writing, and suddenly I had a yen to dig up a paper I gave in Konstanz in Sept.'12, which has been mouldering since and really needs to be finished, and started working on it. I know where I'd like to send it, and it would be nice to either get one more thing into submission still this year, or at the very least early next year to start priming the field for 2014 publications. A day when I actually spend a substantive portion writing (even if "writing" today meant "converting citations into the form required by the journal in question", blech), is always satisfying.

Revising

Refereeing

• Finished reading JoLLI#1.
• Squee! A book I've been asked to review -- one I'd been planning to purchase for myself -- arrived today, and it looks awesome. Looking forward to reading this quite a bit.

Teaching

• Extended meeting with Birgit planning this week's lecture as well as discussing out most of the rest of the semester.

Conferences

Miscellaneous

• Did some more email catch-up
• Submitted Nepal reimbursement.
• Oh, my, the hair. Gotta love the hair.

Friday, November 29, 2013

Reading

• Williamson, "Squares of Opposition: Comparisons Between Syllogistic and Propositional Logic", NDJFL 8, no. 4 (9172).

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

• Found and invited referees for first JoLLI assignment.

Teaching

• Prepared for seminar
• Ran seminar. Did not completely lose voice while doing so, thanks to students that talked!

Conferences

• Found out my abstract for ISSA was accepted. Woot! An excuse to go back to Amsterdam for a few days. Maybe Joel and Gwen will come.

Miscellaneous

Thursday, November 28, 2013

Jetlag and illness caught up with me, my alarm went off at 8:20 and I made it out of bed long enough to wake Gwen, change her, dress her, and hand her off to Joel before taking a dose of NyQuil and passing out for another 4 hours.

Reading

• Wikipedia on the Ravens Paradox -- actually quite a good article. I started off just skimming it for the references, but ended up reading most of it.
• Schroeder, "Hempel's Paradox, Law-likeness, and Causal Relations", Philosophical Investigates, (2009).

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

• Looks like this heading is going to be expanding to also cover editorial work, as today I got the confirmation email that I've joined the editorial board of the Journal of Logic, Language, and Information, and only a few hours later received my first editorial assignment.

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

And...we're back.

Reading

• Corner & Hahn, "Normative Theories of Argumentation: Are Some Norms Better than Others?", Synthese.

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

• Printed off student assignments from last week to read.
• Read student assignments.
• Did some prep work for Friday's seminar.

Conferences

• Made some further arrangements for Pamplona conference.
• Inquired about ISSA'14 submission results, since it's been nearly two months.

Miscellaneous

• All the miscellaneous catching up of email/regular mail that a trip away from the office entails.
• Sent consent form to cluster.
• Bought diapers.
• Cleaned out much of the accumulated paper in my bag.
• Looked up Turkish Airline's delay policies, found out we were entitled to two (2) free emails as a result of our 3 hour delay heading to Kathmandu. Oh, hahahahaha.
• Cleaned out much of the paper recycling in my office.

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Reading

Writing

Revising

• Checked final proofs for JPL paper and returned them to the editor who was getting irritated by my lack of response due to limited internet access as in Nepal.

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

• Conference day 2, including my presentation (right before lunch), and a free afternoon for excursions.

Miscellaneous

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

• Conference day 1
• Finished writing slides for my presentation tomorrow.

Miscellaneous

Monday, November 11, 2013

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

• Arrived in Kathmandu three hours late due to delayed departure from Istanbul the night before; waited in line about an hour to get a visa; but then still had a few hours in the afternoon to head downtown with Birgit to get something to eat and go shopping. We then returned to the airport, met up with everyone else to fly to Lumbini, where we waited for another hour or so for our bus to pick us up. General elections are a week from today, and much of the country is on strike; as a result, there are a lot of military and police blockades up which causes delays in transport.

Miscellaneous

Friday, November 8, 2013

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

• Read student questions/comments and wrote up a few responses of my own.
• Lecture 12-2

Conferences

Miscellaneous

• Ran errands

Thursday, November 7, 2013

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

• Read this week's student comments/questions as they came in. Luckily, most of them don't require my input.

Conferences

• Lots of work done on slides for Lumbini.

Miscellaneous

• Purchased train tickets to/from Hook van Holland for Yule.
• Printed off all the travel documents for the pre-North Lake part of the trip.
• Went out to the post office to pick up Gwen's suitcase.

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Reading

• Finished reading relevant parts of Oetke and taking notes for Lumbini paper.
• Having read the Tachikawa translation, went back to reread Gillon & Love for class on Fri.
• Bright, "On American Indian Languages from Latin American Publications", IntJAmLing 29, no. 3 (1963).
• Troike, "Amotomanco (Otomoaco) and Tanpachoa as Uto-Aztecan Languages", IntJAmLing 54, no. 2 (1988).
• Lozano, "Aztec Traces in Modern Spanish", Hispania 64, no. 3 (1981).
• Skimmed a bunch of other articles to see if they discuss Nahuatl personal names.

Writing

• And then suddenly, I had a desire type up my notes into slides, and I made a lot of progress on my Lumbini talk.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

• Lunch with Birgit to discuss the next couple week's lectures, and Lumbini.

Conferences

Miscellaneous

• Nahuatl is so cool

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Reading

• Parts of Castagnoli which look at his criticisms of Mackie's types of self-refutation.
• Read, via googletranslate, A. Graff's discussion of the satkotika vadah; I'm not sure I quite follow it, but it looks interesting.
• Read Tachikawa trans. for class on Fri. Useful to note for future purposes: "The statements comprising the Indian syllogism have the fundamental form: there is a property in a property-possessor" (p. 112). Further, cf. the notes on p. 113 about the relationship between dharma/dharmin and subject/predicate: They are simply fundamentally different types of objects. This is an interesting little piece; I must re-read Gillon & Love to really get a grasp on nit.

Writing

• Extensive notes for Lumbini talk.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

• Made 2-year appointment for Gwen.
• Went grocery shopping and to the post office on lunch break.

Monday, November 4, 2013

Reading

• Re-read Birgit's exposition on the 6 points; started reading her new version that she sent me around noon.
• Read lots and lots of emails. Normally I wouldn't put this as a bullet point, but for some reason, a lot of content-filled emails arrived in my academic inbox over the weekend, and it was a significant part of the day going through them.
• Began reading Oetke, "Two Investigations on the Madhyamakakarikas and the Vigrahavyavartani", focusing mostly on S. 2 of the section on the Vigrahavyavartani, and utterly skipping the material on the Madhyamakakarikas.

Writing

• Notes for Lumbini presentation on the basis of my re-reading of Birgit's paper.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

• Bought Gwen's suitcase.
• Converted an article scanned in .png into a single .pdf.
• Dealt with a bunch of backlog email.
• Arranged cat sitter for while we're in the US.
• Late lunch with Joel!

Thursday, October 31, 2013

[Before hitting publish: Really? Is that it? I feel like I did more than just teaching-related things today, but I'm not sure what.]

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

• Reviewed student question/comments and wrote up answers for today's lecture.
• Attended lecture.

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Reading

Writing

• Wrote the 800 words necessary (plus 110 extra) for this part of my contribution to the obligationes chapter.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

• 8th eColloq on Argumentation

Miscellaneous

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

And today, Gwen woke up at 5:00am. *zzzzzz*.

Reading

• Finished Patil; some interesting things there that may be relevant to the Ratnakirti-Procida paper, if I ever get back to it.
• Started rereading Martin, "Obligations and Liars", to try to understand the relationship with the 12th C better.
• Began Pérez-Ilzarbe, "Disputation and Logic in Medieval Treatises De Modo Opponendi et Respondendi", Vivarium 2011.

Writing

Lots of hand-written notes for obligationes chapter.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Monday, October 28, 2013

What with daylight savings, Gwen was up at 5:30am this morning. *yawn*.

Reading

• Reviewed Pahi, "On Relating Two Traditions of Logic", and Ganeri, "Towards a Formal Regimentation of the Navya-Nyaya Technical Language I and II", to see how useful either will be for class. Also skimmed Guhe from the same volume -- don't think it's going to be what we want.
• Finished Steinkellner.
• Started ch. 6 of Patil 2009 (for class). Hahaha: "Ordinary people cannot function without such convenient fictions and ... asking the to do so ... would just leave them mentally exhausted" (343).

Writing

• Slides for Lumbini

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Friday, October 25, 2013

Reading

• Cleaning up my desktop: Naumann et al. "Slaves as burial gifts in Viking Age Norway? Evidence from stable isotope and ancient DNA analyses", forthcoming in Journal of Archaeological Science.
• Looking ahead to next week's class: S.1 of Steinkellner 1982.

Writing

• Teaching is tiring. I needed something relatively mindless afterwards, so worked on BotS: Brandyn through Braylee.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

• Reviewed notes and slides
• Taught (went well!)

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Thursday, October 24, 2013

Reading

• While I had it out for finishing up my slides, I also finished the intro to Ganeri's book.

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

• Finished (I hope) slides and lecture for tomorrow.

Conferences

• Bought flight to Pamplona in Dec.

Miscellaneous

• HTMLed an article by Constanza on Welsh bynames.

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

After having woken up around 5:00 with a coughing fit that pulled a muscle and didn't really let me get back to sleep before Gwen woke up at 6:45, I ended up heading home from work around noon. Still got a few more things done, but also took a nap.

Reading

Writing

Revising

• Sent off corrections to author proofs for N paper.

Refereeing

Teaching

• Worked on slides and notes for Friday.

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Reading

• Gillon & Love, "Indian Logic Revisited", Journal of Indian Philosophy.

  The attempt to separate the ontic (truth-functional) from the epistemic (inferential) level, if it works, is rather like the method of getting around logical omniscience by positing an awareness function, or the medieval idea of notitia or consideratio. If this parallel is so, then it could be that the point of the "redundant" step in the 5-step syllogism is precisely epistemic: To bring the relevant facts to the reasoner's consideration. In which case, this would probably be amenable to modeling via DEL just as I did with Paul. The dialectical level makes this explicit.

Writing

Revising

• Author proofs for N paper.

Refereeing

Teaching

• Wrote up outline for slides for Friday.
• Long meeting with Birgit, we've planned out the semester through the end of Nov.
• Started making slides, got through the first 1/3 or so.

Conferences

• Reimbursement for Life after ILLC event sent off.

Miscellaneous

Monday, October 21, 2013

Gwen woke up at 6:30, but after reading to her a bit I convinced her to lie back down, and we lay in the dark until 7:30. About an hour later I was going to get her ready to go to daycare when I realized that I wouldn't be able to make it out and back even if we went by bus, so I woke Joel. He took her out, and I went back to bed until 12:30.

Reading

• Read a bit of the chapter on Indian logic in Haaparantaa's Development of Modern Logic.

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

• Today was supposed to be prep day for this week's lecture so that I have something to say when Birgit and I meet today. Best I've done was spend some time thinking (actually yesterday on the train) about what to cover; I want to introduce the Aristotelian syllogistic in more precise detail, highlight some of the aspects of formality of it, point out some of the problems, talk about what is "formal" about Indian logic and the pragmatic use of logic and formal tools.

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Sunday, October 20, 2013

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

• Traveled home from Amsterdam, again delayed by about an hour, all three of us getting increasingly ill.

Miscellaneous

Saturday, October 19

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

• Went to Amsterdam with Joel and Gwen to talk at the "Life after ILLC" event. Train was about an hour delayed, but otherwise the event was good.

Miscellaneous

Friday, October 18, 2013

Reading

• preface and S. 1-5 of the introduction of Jonardon Ganeri, Indian Logic: A Reader

Writing

• Worked on some of the confusing examples in PoV-syll.
• Slides for tomorrow's talk.
• Wrote a quick article on Dutch names.
• BotS Bradly through Brandy, M.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

• First day of classes. 24 students showed up!

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Thursday, October 17, 2013

Insane insomnia last night, so excrutiatingly tired today.

Reading

Writing

Revising

• Proofread author proofs for our GPMR paper.
• Checked formatting for the author proofs for other GPMR papers: Amerini & Mugnai, Cesalli & Goubier; Dutilh Novaes; Dvorak; Ebbesen; Knuuttila; Øhrstrøm; Parsons & Normore; Read; Restall; Ward; Zardini.

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

• Dug out some papers/transcriptions I'd promised people I'd send them, and scanned them.
• Cluster general meeting in the afternoon.

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Reading

• Finished Castagnoli.
• Skimmed Malpass, "Fara's Formula and the Supervaluational Thin Red Line", Theoria, as prep. for referee report.

Writing

• BotS, Bonnie, M., through Bowen

Revising

Refereeing

• Finally finished my referee report for Mind. Sent it off, and the auto-reply I got confirming receipt also said: "Please find attached a copy of OUP's referees' discount order form. I hope this is of use to you. I'm sorry it's the only way we have to reward referees for their work for the journal." ! Considering as I have never had any sort of reward at all for referring, and I have about four volumes of the DMLBS left to purchase, I'm quite tickled by this. I'd happily referee for Mind again in the future!

Teaching

Conferences

• Tried to find reasonable transportation to Pamplona in Dec.
• Arranged accommodation for Oxford in Dec.

Miscellaneous

• Obligatory post-travel bag empty out.
• Booked flight home from the US in Nov.
• Booked hotel for Aaron & Alicia's wedding.

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Not exactly jet-lagged, but rather more tired than I like to be for accomplishing real work.

Reading

• Started reading Castagnoli, "Aristotle on Begging the Question", LAHP vol. 15. "I will side, of course, with the pedantic".

Writing

• I guess it falls under this header. I updated my list of onomastic articles with everything I've done in the last 1.5 years or so.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

• Reviewed Birgit's slides and notes for lecture this week.

Conferences

• Uploaded my slides from Fordham.

Miscellaneous

• Post-travel email catch up.

Monday, October 14, 2013

Slept. Got into Frankfurt airport about 10:45, and home about 12:45, slept until 16:15, showered, went to get Gwen -- just missing my bus and then waiting an hour for the next one (the bus SHOULD come every 10 minutes). Home, supper, bed for her, home supper, uploaded NYC photos, hang out with Joel, bed for me.

Sunday, October 13, 2013

Reading

Writing

• BotS: Bobbie through Bonita.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

• Final day of SAGP/SSIPS, and traveling home.

Miscellaneous

Saturday, October 12, 2013

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

• Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy/Society for the Study of Islamic Philosophy and Science joint conference, Fordham U, NYC.
• Chaired two sessions and presented my paper.

Miscellaneous

Friday, October 11, 2013

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

• Spent all day traveling to NYC, arrived in time for the final plenary talk of the SAGP/SSIPS joint conference.

Miscellaneous

Thursday, October 10, 2013

Reading

• Since I had lunch in the cafeteria rather than to go, I read a bit more of Manuel's paper.

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

• Checked in for one of my flights tomorrow
• Bought my train ticket to the airport
• Worked on my slides. Slides are BORING.
• Looked at train fairs to Amsterdam for ILLC event.

Miscellaneous

• Grand opening for Gwen's daycare this afternoon, so I went over to that for awhile.

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Reading

• Part of Manuel's paper.
• Enough of Patterson, "A Logical Treatment of Constructive Duality", to realize it doesn't have what I need.
• Ditto de Freitas, Viana, Veloso, Veloso, & Benevides, "On Hybrid Arrow Logic".
• Halpern & Shoham, "A Modal Logic of Time Intervals": Score! I found the example I needed.
• In order to use H&S, I needed to follow it up with Venema 1990.

Writing

• Structuralist paper. It's suddenly become a real paper, not a short note; I think I jumped from 6 pages to 10 today. Who knows. Maybe I will end up submitting it to AiML.

Revising

Refereeing

• A bit of IEP stuff.

Teaching

Conferences

• Worked on Procida follow-up webpage a bit.

Miscellaneous

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Reading

• Relevant bits of Japaridze & de Jongh's chapter on provability logic in Handbook of Proof Theory (that is, anything about Heyting arithmetic; anything about provability outside of GL/PA, and anything about the deduction theorem)
• Ditto for Artemov and Beklemishev's chapter on provability logic in Handbook of Philosophical Logic. Heh: "Readers who feel insecure about reasoning in weak arithmetics may freely read PA instead of EA for most of this chapter." And people say mathematicians don't care about people's feelings.
• Made an annotated bibliography of everything I've amassed for the structuralist paper.
• Collected some problematic examples from PoV that I'm having trouble translating.

Writing

• Needed to take a break and think for a bit on what I'd read, so I went and wrote up the three arguments for the modal op. def. in Koslow. While doing so, it occurred to me that any modal which is self-dual will also be problematic for the structuralist account.

Revising

• Reviewed Jesse's changes to N paper, and did my own, and uploaded the final versions of the files.

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Monday, October 7, 2013

Reading

• Proofread Ava's booklet.
• Iemhoff's paper in 2000 AiML proceedings.
• Friedman's 1975 paper in Proc.Nat.Acad.Sci. USA
• Porte, "50 Years of the Deduction Theorem", in Proc. Herbrand Soc., 1982

And lots and lots of back-and-forths with various SEP articles, bits of C&Z, and bits of Boolos.

Writing

Revising

• Made a few minor corrections on N paper; just waiting for Jesse now.

Refereeing

• Send out an IEP paper for revision and another for refereeing, and accepted one more for drafting.

Teaching

• Looked up room for course (KJC, yay!), as well reminded myself of the moodle URL.

Conferences

• Dealing with travel stuff for Fordham this weekend.

Miscellaneous

Friday, October 3, 2013

Spent most of the morning in bed, sick.

Reading

• About 3/4 of Part IV of Koslow, A Structuralist Theory of Logic
• Looked around online for info about modal logics of classical and intuitionistic provability, instead of PA provability; might have to email Dick for suggestions.
• Read SEP article on provability logics.

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

• Went to some of the talks at Standards of Validity in Late Imperial Chine
• Sent off the PoV paper to Paloma to see if it's up to spec for Navarre in Dec.

Miscellaneous

Thursday, October 3, 2013

It's a holiday today, so most of what I've accomplished is playing with duplos.

Reading

Writing

Revising

• Minor revisions of N paper, which was finally (after two years of revise and resubmits) accepted last night.

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Reading

Writing

• LIRA contribution. This morning, proofs! This afternoon, proofreading! Managed to get it sent off about half an hour before I normally leave the office.
• Which means I could let myself indulge in some 12th C Latinized French feminine names for the remainder.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

• Had to go to the post to mail a scroll, so I also bought some new toothbrushes for Gwen.

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Reading

• part of Koslow's article in ERP -- until I got the reminder email from Nina.

Writing

• LIRa contribution, which was due today, arg. Got lots done, though. Hopefully can finish tomorrow.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

• Scanned a bunch of receipts for Joel.

Monday, September 30, 2013

Reading

• Relevant bits that I could get via snippet view of Koslow, A Structuralist Theory of Logic -- enough to determine I need to get the whole book. Will ask Jonas to scan the relevant sections since I still can't get books from the library.
• Ch. 6 of Priest's Intro to Non-classical Logics, on intuitionism. (did not have what I was looking for: info on the logic of provability.)
• The preface to Boolos's Logic of Provability.
• Solovay's '76 "Provability Interpretations of Modal Logic" in IJM.

Writing

• Wrote and submitted abstract for the 8th Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation.
• Worked on my FotFS follow-up.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

• Submitted FotFS reimbursements

Miscellaneous

• Wrote Grandpa & Ruth a letter

Thurs. & Fri., Sept. 26 & 27, 2013

Took the days off (to make up for working over the weekend at FotFS) and went to NL for the Borefts Bierfestival.

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Reading

• Finished Trobok's paper
• Koslow, "Structuralist Logic: Implications, Inferences, and Consequences", Logica Universalis.

Writing

• BotS: Betty to Bobbie, F.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

• Lots and lots of time on the train today heading to Eberbach and back.

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Reading

• Thakkar's chapter on "Mathematics in the Fourteenth Century"
• Printed a bunch of things to read on the train tomorrow.
• Started reading Trobok, "A Structuralist Account of Logic"

Writing

• Send off OUP contract to Catarina for obligationes chapter.
• Wrote a bit on my FotFS follow-up note.

Revising

• I guess editing falls under this category. I was finally able to send out author proofs for GPMR-LS1.

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

• Sent off passport for renewal, again.

Monday, September 23, 2013

Reading

Writing

• BotS: Bert through Bettie.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

• FotFS day 4

Miscellaneous

Sunday, Septeber 22, 2013

Reading

Writing

• A bit more on modal operators and structuralist logic.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

• Gave my presentation at FotFS

Miscellaneous

Saturday, September 21, 2013

Reading

• Collected references regarding structuralist logic.

Writing

• Sketch of a short paper arising in response from one of the talks this morning.

Revising

Refereeing

• Finished the first reading of a paper to referee for Mind.

Teaching

Conferences

• FotFS day 2

Miscellaneous

Friday, September 20, 2013

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

• Reading a paper to referee for Mind.

Teaching

Conferences

• FotFS day 1

Miscellaneous

Thursday, September 19, 2013

Reading

Writing

• BotS: Barnett to Berry.
• FotFS: Arg, arg, arg! All my work from about 14:00 on yesterday was lost. Luckily I still had a PDF, so I could recreate, but ARG. Using git is supposed to prevent this! I did finally get them to a finished-enough point.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Miscellaneous

• Printed off travel docs and stuff for FotFS.

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Reading

Writing

• FotFS. The deadline is looming.
• FotFS slides. About 2/3 done, I'd say.
• Took a break to work on BotS: Ava to Barnett.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Miscellaneous

• Finally got confirmed accommodation for Fordham.
• Sent off personal info for new credit card.

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Reading

• Set up Ratnakirti reading/translation group

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Miscellaneous

• Ran a bunch of errands with Joel

Monday, September 16, 2013

Reading

Writing

• BotS: Aubriana to Autumn.
• FotfS: Paul of Venice's semantic arguments against a syntactic view of categorematicity and, by extension, conversion. Except then I realized that I wasn't sure these were arguments that HE is espousing, rather than arguing against. sigh. That took some sorting out, and YAY, I hit 12 pages!

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Miscellaneous

• More scanning. Will it ever end?
• Put up some missing slides.
• Finally remembered to register for Fordham conf.

Friday, 13 September, 2013

Reading

• Talked to Patrick about Procida-follow up in terms of a reading group, and sent an announcement off to DDAHL.

Writing

• BotS, Arvid to Aubri.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Miscellaneous

• Gave myself a break today and did lots and lots of paperwork/cleaning/sorting/scanning. I recycled a WHOLE TON of paper today, and finally got a bunch of things moved over from the desktop to the laptop.
• Also looked at the todo list I wrote up at the beginning of the week and realized I had or could cross off almost everything on it that I'd added at the beginning of the week (I don't care so much about things that were added midweek.)

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Reading

• Braakhuis, "English Tracts on Syncategorematic Terms from Robert Bacon to Walter Burley", ESMLS proceedings

Writing

• Teeth pulling w.r.t. FotFS. Arg. What I read at the end of yesterday required a lot of rewriting. I'm STILL on pg. 11.
• Eventually gave up, worked on BotS for awhile; Arietta - Arvel.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Miscellaneous

• Day started off late as the plumber was scheduled to come at 9:00 so I didn't get out to the office as early as usual.
• Tried to arrange accommodation for Fordham conference in Oct.

Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013

Geez, is it Wednesday already?

Reading

• Read the intro to Brown's edition of Paul of Pergola's Logica (and discovered looking at the table of contents that there's a section on obligationes in there, which, per google, doesn't appear to have been published on. I sense another paper topic).

Writing

• Lots of work on FotFS. My goal today was to get the paper to 12 pages; if I can get it to 15 by the time it's done, I'll be satisfied. I didn't quite succeed in my goal, still hovering around 11.5 pages. That's because I found double quotes, extra notes I didn't need, and various other bits that either were deleted or simply folded in. I did write a lot, you just can't tell! But I'm pretty well set up: Need to discuss Heytesbury and the compounded/divided distinction, and really dig into Paul of Venice's rules. Might even be able to take tomorrow off from this paper, and work on some Procida follow-up.
• Worked on BotS, Ari (F.) to Arielle.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Miscellaneous

• Did a bunch more scanning. Amazing how it seems like so little progress has been made, despite the huge quantities of paper I've thrown away in the last 8 months. Perhaps because all the single-sided stuff is still sitting on my desk, waiting for me to use it as scratch paper.

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Reading

• I thought there was a chapter on fallacies of the hetu in Matilal's Character of Logic in India, but I appear to be mistaken.
• Reread this blog post that I'd originally found when I was first note-taking for the FotFS paper.

Writing

• I've figured out how to structure my FotFS paper, and made really good progress on it, though at times I felt rather seasick -- I'd write really really fast, and then stop and couldn't get started again. It was fits and starts all afternoon, and finally around 16:00 I decided my brain was dead.
• So I worked on BotS, from Ardell (M.) to Aretha.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Miscellaneous

Monday, September 9, 2013

Reading

• Read the sections in Bacon's The Art and Science of Logic on infinitives and syncategoremes (not much).
• Read Murdoch's chapter on infinity and continuity in CHLMPs.
• Read the introduction of William of Sherwood's Syncategoremata.
• Read a review of Dharmakirti's Theory of Hetu-Centricity of Anumana in Asian Philosophy vol. 1, no. 1, 1991 -- a review which seems sadly, sadly confused on a number of issues (at least, if Dharmakirti uses the various technical terms in the same way that Ratnakirti does, which seems a plausible assumption) -- and another review of the same book in Journal of the American Oriental Society vol. 114, no. 1. This review is also extremely critical of the book ("An excellent edition and translation...which was published long before the publication of the present book, was most probably not accessible to [the author]. However, the present reviewer soon came to realize that the author was not seriously affected by the inaccessibility of a better text, because she does not appear to care much about what is written in the text").
• Read chapter 1 of fascicule 1 of part 1 of Paul of Venice's Logica Magna, on the syn/categorematic distinction.

Writing

• More notes and thoughts for FoTFS paper

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Miscellaneous

• Put together travel expenses for Procida

September 1-September 7, 2013

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Miscellaneous

• I spent the entire week in Procida, Italy, at a workshop on formal modeling and Buddhist logic. Lots of fun! But no time for daily updates.

Friday, 30 August 2013

Half day today since I'll be working on Sunday.

Reading

Writing

• BotS appendix from Allean to Alvie.

Revising

• Sent of revision of A Curious Dialogical Logic and its Composition Problem to JPL.

Refereeing

Teaching

Miscellaneous

Thursday, 29 August 2013

Reading

• More from Patel, on Hindu and Buddhist epistemology.

Writing

• For BotS appendix, processed from Alaya to Alford.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Miscellaneous

• Mailed off passport renewal
• Mailed off various other things.

Wednesday, 28 August 2013

Reading

• Continuing on in Patel.

Writing

• Worked on the appendix for "Battle of the Sexes", got from Aaden to Alannah.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Miscellaneous

• Got passport photos.
• Booked my flight to SAGP/SSIPS.

Tuesday, 27 August 2013

Reading

• Started reading ch. 2 of Patil's In Defense of a Hindu God, in prep for next week's seminar.

Writing

Revising

• Very minor change to N paper; I think it's ready to go.

Refereeing

Teaching

Misc

• Finished updating website. (And yes, this was an almost all day process.)

Monday, 26 August 2013

Reading

Writing

• Worked on the intro of "Battle of the Sexes".
• Removed all HTML formatting and converted SocSec data into CSV.
• Added all the gender and year info to the SocSec data.
• Imported SocSec data into gnumeric and sorted by name. Need to think about more about how to process the data.
• Worked on LIRa contribution, sorting out what's in pov-unc, epiob, and scope-epi, and putting everything not in pov-unc into lira2012.

Revising

• Tried to determine the best placement for that one paragraph in the N paper, and did a number of other various rewrites. It's now back with Jesse and Aleks for their input.

Refereeing

Teaching

Misc

• Did lots of scanning.
• Applied for a new passport.

Friday, 23 Aug 2013

Reading

• Transcribed the section on infinitum from Paul of Venice's Logica Parva.
• Started working on the translation
• Read the section on syn/categorematic ters from Kretzmann's edition/translation of Part I Fascicule 1 of Paul of Venice's Logica Magna.
• Read Patrick McAllister's draft "Argument Structure in Ratnakirti's Texts"

Writing

• Took notes for FotFS paper.
• Worked on LIRa contribution.

Revising

• Did some minor editings on "A Curious Dialogical Logic...". Hopefully we can get it resubmitted soon.

Refereeing

Teaching

Misc

• Lots and lots of moving of the old website to the new.