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!