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.