Tuesday, September 30, 2014

September resolution review

Submissions

TitleSubmittedRevision requestedResubmittedAccepted
"Logic and Semantic Theory in the High Middle Ages"11 June 2013invited book chapter
"Paul of Venice on a Puzzle About Uncertainty"24 June 2013
"Sit Verum and Counterfactual Reasoning13 August 201310 March 20142 April 2014
"The Logic of Categorematic and Syncategorematic Infinity"14 January 201417 April 201416 May 2014
"Obligationes" (with Catarina Dutilh Novaes)27 March 201428 March 201408 April 201415 April 2014
"Code-Switched Occupational and Descriptive Phrases in 15th-Century York: A Study of Medieval Bilingualism"10 April 201410 June 2014
"Review of Marko Malink, Aristotle's Modal Syllogistic"14 April 201411 June 2014
"Dialectical Self-Refutation and Năgărjuna's Discussion in Six Points (ṣaṭkoṭiko vădaḥ)" (with Birgit Kellner)26 June 2014
"Beyond Formality: The Role of the Dialectical Context in Medieval Logic"31 July 2014

2014 Publications

TitlePublication info
"A Medieval Epistemic Puzzle"in Z. Christoff, P. Galeazzi, N. Giersimczuck, A. Marcoci, & S. Smets, LIRa Yearbook 2012, vol. 1 (Amsterdam: Institute for Logic, Language & Computation, 2014): 301-316.
"Medieval Destinations: Lumbini"Tournaments Illuminated 190 (2014): 33.
"Reasoning About Obligations in Obligationes: A Formal Approach"in R. Goré, B. Kooi, and A. Kurucz, Advances in Modal Logic (College Publications: 2014): 553-568.
"Intuitionistic Provability and the Structuralist Account of Modal Operators"in Short Papers Present at AiML 2014: 98-102.

Monday, September 22, 2014

Monday, September 22, 2014

Reading

  • Read Student & Departmental Handbook.

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

  • Sought another referee for JoLLI.

Teaching

Conferences

  • Read up on admin stuff related to research committee and ethics committee.
  • Asked Parul to make hotel arrangements for AREW.

Miscellaneous

  • Scanned some papers.

Monday, September 15, 2014

Monday, September 15, 2014

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

  • Printed off a revision to referee.

Teaching

  • Touched base with Birgit about our final Buddhist logic paper to grade.
  • Emailed Robin to find out how grading/readings are done in Durham.

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • Went through the stack of paper that Parul scanned.
  • Daycare paperwork.
  • Polls.
  • Post conference email catch-up.
  • VISAS! Booked ferry to UK.

Saturday, September 13, 2014

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

  • Modal syllogistics day 3, including hellishly long travel home, but a good time hanging out with a new friend.

Miscellaneous

Friday, September 12, 2014

Reading

Writing

  • Began writing up theorem and proofs for math.chron.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

  • Modal syllogistics day 2.

Miscellaneous

Thursday, September 11, 2014

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

  • Modal syllogistics day 1.

Miscellaneous

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Reading

Writing

  • Slides for syllogistics conf.
  • Began notes for mathematics of chronologies theorems.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

  • Travel to Lisbon for Modal Syllogistics conf.

Miscellaneous

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

I did stuff. Really, I did.

Monday, September 8, 2014

Monday, September 8, 2014

Reading

  • Materials related to the Erasmus programme in Durham.

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

  • Preliminary schedule for L&M

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • Sorting out German kindergeld.
  • Called Durham nursery.
  • Packaged up and mailed some journal issues.
  • Tried to find old receipts from 2013 travel.
  • More Anselm stuff.

Friday, September 5, 2014

Friday, September 5, 2014

I am exhausted. And then I left an hour early, to take Gwen to the park.

Reading

Writing

  • Slides for next week.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • Threw away yet more paper.

Thursday, September 4, 2014

Thursday, September 4, 2014

Reading

Writing

  • Lisbon slides

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • Some long overdue MNA updates.
  • Went through Yet Moar Paper.

Wednesday, September 3, 2014

We went to Karlsruhe for the day.

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • Collated two mailing lists for the next Anselm update.

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Reading

  • Gillon on Fang Bian Xin Lun

Writing

  • Slides for Lisbon.
  • IDHC follow-up paper, which I hadn't intended to write on today.

Revising

Refereeing

  • JoLLI work. Found referees for a new assignment; and finally made my first acceptance!

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Monday, September 1, 2014

Monday, September 1, 2014

It was a very complex day.

Reading

  • Okada, "A way of communication...", the paper for a talk I didn't attend at IDHC.
  • Tillemans's Introduction to the special issue (2008) of Argumentation on Buddhist argumentation.
  • Determined the correct phrase for the expostulation "my God!" in Quenya.

Writing

  • Various notes for papers, accumulated during the conference, put into their correct files, and started writing one of the papers. (yeah, I know. I really shouldn't start a new paper until I've finished some others...).

Revising

Refereeing

  • Read a paper for JoLLI so I could submit my decision on it.

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • Post-conference hand-out going through.

Monday, September 1, 2014

It was a very complex day.

Reading

  • Okada, "A way of communication...", the paper for a talk I didn't attend at IDHC.
  • Tillemans's Introduction to the special issue (2008) of Argumentation on Buddhist argumentation.
  • Determined the correct phrase for the expostulation "my God!" in Quenya.

Writing

  • Various notes for papers, accumulated during the conference, put into their correct files, and started writing one of the papers. (yeah, I know. I really shouldn't start a new paper until I've finished some others...).

Revising

Refereeing

  • Read a paper for JoLLI so I could submit my decision on it.

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • Post-conference hand-out going through.

Monday, September 1, 2014

It was a very complex day.

Reading

  • Okada, "A way of communication...", the paper for a talk I didn't attend at IDHC.
  • Tillemans's Introduction to the special issue (2008) of Argumentation on Buddhist argumentation.
  • Determined the correct phrase for the expostulation "my God!" in Quenya.

Writing

  • Various notes for papers, accumulated during the conference, put into their correct files, and started writing one of the papers. (yeah, I know. I really shouldn't start a new paper until I've finished some others...).

Revising

Refereeing

  • Read a paper for JoLLI so I could submit my decision on it.

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • Post-conference hand-out going through.

Monday, September 1, 2014

It was a very complex day.

Reading

  • Okada, "A way of communication...", the paper for a talk I didn't attend at IDHC.
  • Tillemans's Introduction to the special issue (2008) of Argumentation on Buddhist argumentation.
  • Determined the correct phrase for the expostulation "my God!" in Quenya.

Writing

  • Various notes for papers, accumulated during the conference, put into their correct files, and started writing one of the papers. (yeah, I know. I really shouldn't start a new paper until I've finished some others...).

Revising

Refereeing

  • Read a paper for JoLLI so I could submit my decision on it.

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • Post-conference hand-out going through.

Monday, September 1, 2014

It was a very complex day.

Reading

  • Okada, "A way of communication...", the paper for a talk I didn't attend at IDHC.
  • Tillemans's Introduction to the special issue (2008) of Argumentation on Buddhist argumentation.
  • Determined the correct phrase for the expostulation "my God!" in Quenya.

Writing

  • Various notes for papers, accumulated during the conference, put into their correct files, and started writing one of the papers. (yeah, I know. I really shouldn't start a new paper until I've finished some others...).

Revising

Refereeing

  • Read a paper for JoLLI so I could submit my decision on it.

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • Post-conference hand-out going through.

Sunday, August 31, 2014

August resolution review

Submissions

TitleSubmittedRevision requestedResubmittedAccepted
"Logic and Semantic Theory in the High Middle Ages"11 June 2013invited book chapter
"Paul of Venice on a Puzzle About Uncertainty"24 June 2013
"Sit Verum and Counterfactual Reasoning13 August 201310 March 20142 April 2014
"The Logic of Categorematic and Syncategorematic Infinity"14 January 201417 April 201416 May 2014
"Obligationes" (with Catarina Dutilh Novaes)27 March 201428 March 201408 April 201415 April 2014
"Code-Switched Occupational and Descriptive Phrases in 15th-Century York: A Study of Medieval Bilingualism"10 April 201410 June 2014
"Review of Marko Malink, Aristotle's Modal Syllogistic"14 April 201411 June 2014
"Dialectical Self-Refutation and Năgărjuna's Discussion in Six Points (ṣaṭkoṭiko vădaḥ)" (with Birgit Kellner)26 June 2014
"Beyond Formality: The Role of the Dialectical Context in Medieval Logic"31 July 2014

Yup. This month I failed. Two weeks' travel, a week home, and then another week at a conference (albeit local) = basically no writing time. That's OK. I'm not too fussed.

2014 Publications

TitlePublication info
"A Medieval Epistemic Puzzle"in Z. Christoff, P. Galeazzi, N. Giersimczuck, A. Marcoci, & S. Smets, LIRa Yearbook 2012, vol. 1 (Amsterdam: Institute for Logic, Language & Computation, 2014): 301-316.
"Medieval Destinations: Lumbini"Tournaments Illuminated 190 (2014): 33.
"Reasoning About Obligations in Obligationes: A Formal Approach"in R. Goré, B. Kooi, and A. Kurucz, Advances in Modal Logic (College Publications: 2014): 553-568.
"Intuitionistic Provability and the Structuralist Account of Modal Operators"in Short Papers Present at AiML 2014: 98-102.

Saturday, August 30, 2014

Saturday, August 30, 2014

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

  • Dharmakirti conference day 5.

Miscellaneous

Friday, August 29, 2014

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

  • Dharmakirti conference day 4.

Miscellaneous

Thursday, August 28, 2014

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

  • Dharmakirti conference day 3.

Miscellaneous

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

  • Dharmakirta conference day 2: I presented my paper in the morning.

Miscellaneous

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Reading

Writing

  • Finished my slides for tomorrow.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

  • First day of the Dharmakirti conference.

Miscellaneous

Monday, August 25, 2014

Monday, August 25, 2014

Reading

Writing

  • Slides for Dharmakirti conference.
  • Decided I really wanted to do something, but do something different, so I worked on my obligationes book a bit.
  • Katherine is ready!

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • Packaged up lots of things to mail.
  • Went to the post office.
  • Scanned something for a friend.
  • I feel like every day I'm throwing away so much paper, and setting aside even more for scanning, and yet not making any dent.

Friday, August 22, 2014

Friday, August 22, 2014

Reading

  • SEP article on logical pluralism.

Writing

  • Argstrat paper.

Revising

  • They FINALLY got the Greek right in my Malink review, so I was finally able to approve it.

Refereeing

Teaching

  • I want to start PhilLog off with a discussion of logical pluralism, so I needed some good articles to read for that.

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • Filled out a survey (in German) about Gwen.

Thursday, August 21, 2014

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • Went to Düsseldorf and back to apply for visa.

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Reading

Writing

  • Published the Onoma CfP.
  • Wrote and published AREW CfP.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • Visa appointment prep work
  • Sorting through papers in the office.
  • Some MNA updating.

Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Reading

Writing

  • Ratnakirti paper. Actually sort of coming along nicely, though you wouldn't guess it from the relative change of pages.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Monday, August 18, 2014

Monday, August 18, 2013

Reading

Writing

  • CfP for Onoma issue.

Revising

  • Proofs for Malink review. Not only have they not fixed the Greek that I have mentioned in every single proofing so far, they introduced new errors into one of the Greek words that had hitherto been correct. Arg.

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • IAAS admin stuff.
  • Applied for visas for myself and for Gwen.

Sunday, August 17, 2014

Sunday, August 17, 2014

Reading

Writing

Revising

  • Conversion of ESMSL front tex to doc.

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

  • Two talks, on radically different subjects, at AiML today.

Miscellaneous

Monday, August 4, 2014

Monday, August 4, 2014

Reading

Writing

  • Finished AiML short-talk slides.
  • Finished AiML long-talk slides.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

  • Reasoning About Other Minds: Split with the other mind of my husband.

Miscellaneous

Friday, August 1, 2014

Friday, August 1, 2014

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • Today is all about making sure all our travel plans for the next two weeks are sorted.
  • Hurrah, threw out a bunch of paper and put more to the side to scan.

Thursday, July 31, 2014

July resolution review

Submissions

TitleSubmittedRevision requestedResubmittedAccepted
"Logic and Semantic Theory in the High Middle Ages"11 June 2013invited book chapter
"Paul of Venice on a Puzzle About Uncertainty"24 June 2013
"Sit Verum and Counterfactual Reasoning13 August 201310 March 20142 April 2014
"The Logic of Categorematic and Syncategorematic Infinity"14 January 201417 April 201416 May 2014
"Obligationes" (with Catarina Dutilh Novaes)27 March 201428 March 201408 April 201415 April 2014
"Reasoning About Obligations in Obligationes: A Formal Approach"08 April 20142 June 201419 May 2014
"Code-Switched Occupational and Descriptive Phrases in 15th-Century York: A Study of Medieval Bilingualism"10 April 201410 June 2014
"Review of Marko Malink, Aristotle's Modal Syllogistic"14 April 201411 June 2014
"Intuitionistic Provability and the Structuralist Account of Modal Operators"21 May 201403 June 2014
"Dialectical Self-Refutation and Năgărjuna's Discussion in Six Points (ṣaṭkoṭiko vădaḥ)" (with Birgit Kellner)26 June 2014
"Beyond Formality: The Role of the Dialectical Context in Medieval Logic"31 July 2014

For 3/4 of the month, I was sure this was going to be the month where I broke my resolution, as I spent the first half of the month suddenly putting all energy towards (succesfully!) landing a full-time, permanent position. I was totally going to count that as an acceptable alternative, but then found in the last week or so, after I'd negotiated and then accepted the offer, that I had no excuse not to continue working on my resolution paper for this month, which is a 2-years overdue paper for the proceedings from ESMLS'12. I'd given up hope of ever completing it, and had stopped replying to Laurent's emails, which I admitting guiltily to him when I saw him in Cambridge last month, and he said if I could get something together by the end of summer, it could still be considered for inclusion. How could I say no to that?

2014 Publications

TitlePublication info
"A Medieval Epistemic Puzzle"in Z. Christoff, P. Galeazzi, N. Giersimczuck, A. Marcoci, & S. Smets, LIRa Yearbook 2012, vol. 1 (Amsterdam: Institute for Logic, Language & Computation, 2014): 301-316.
"Medieval Destinations: Lumbini"Tournaments Illuminated 190 (2014): 33.

Thursday, July 31, 2014

Reading

Writing

  • Finishing up ESMLS. Goal: Can I get it onto 12 pages? Answer: No, but I'm satisfied with what I have.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

  • Started collaborating with my co-teacher for Language & Mind.

Conferences

  • AREW prep with Andrea.

Miscellaneous

  • Visited HBF this morning to buy the last of our tickets. The entire trip is now settled, finally.
  • Finally got the Durham contract! The accept button has been clicked. Forms have been filled out, printed off, emailed back.

Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Reading

Writing

  • AiML slides.
  • Conclusion of ESMSL paper. I also decided to remove the penultimate section; I may add it back in, but I'm not sure.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • We have tickets from Durham back to Harwich now...It was worth 30 extra GBP in order to travel first class.

Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Reading

Writing

  • AiML slides.
  • ESMSL paper. Goal for the day: One more section OR all todos in finished sections, and reach the end of p. 11. Edit: change of plans. I hadn't actually incorporated my slides, so I did that instead. Lengthened things substantially! Now at 12 pages, need to finish one section, write conclusion, and proofread. I may yet finish it this month...
  • Began drafting Onoma CfP.

Revising

Refereeing

  • Got a second referee report for a JoLLI sub., so was able to make my decision on it and send it off to the EiC.

Teaching

Conferences

  • Some AREW planning.

Miscellaneous

Monday, July 28, 2014

Monday, July 28, 2014

Reading

Writing

  • Again: I MUST write another one of the sections in the ESMLS paper. I am currently 4 bib entries onto page 10. I would like to be onto the top of p. 11 by the end of the day.

Revising

Refereeing

  • Received a new JoLLI assignment, and went off to find referees. It always satisfies me when I'm able to invite all female referees.

Teaching

Conferences

  • Began slides for AiML.

Miscellaneous

  • Went through more paper, sorted out some to throw and some to scan.
  • Also got to fill out my first form for Durham.
  • Went through MORE paper. There's almost a visible difference.

Friday, July 25, 2014

Friday, July 25, 2014

Reading

Writing

  • I have procrastinated on the ESMLS paper TOO LONG. It's at 9 pages. I'll be happy with 12. There are XX number of sections left to write/complete. I WILL DO ONE PER DAY UNTIL THIS IS DAY. I have no excuses. Well, I do have an excuse: The book I need is at home! But I can (AND MUST) write one of the other sections instead.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • Managed to empty out a whole bunch of (albeit thin) folders by either throwing paper away or setting it aside for Parul to scan.

Thursday, July 24, 2014

Thursday, July 24, 2014

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

  • General meeting

Miscellaneous

  • Cleaned up a lot of paper on the desk, and sorted through other paper to scan and get rid of.
  • Scanned some material for a colleague.
  • Worked on updating the Anselm mailing list.
  • Tried to sort out travel to AiML/Raglan/Durham. What a hassle.

Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

  • Spoke with Robin this morning about teaching duties for fall. I will be in charge of modules!

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • Salary negotiations: Stressful, but ultimately succcesful.

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Reading

Writing

  • ESMLS'12 paper. Just realized one entire section should be cut, which means I'm down to 9 pages. :(

Revising

Refereeing

  • Searched for a JoLLI ref again.
  • Submitted decision to EiC for another sub.
  • Finished writing up report for Synthese (took all day! I sure hope they take into account my comments).

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • Sent off expense claim.

Monday, July 21, 2014

Monday, July 21, 2014

House-hunting.

Saturday, July 19, 2014

Reading

  • Review of Giordano Bruno’s Renaissance philosophy by Pietro Daniel Omodeo, in Metascience.
  • Review of Romantic machinery by Robert Fox, in Metascience.

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Friday, July 18, 2014

Presentation in the morning, interview in the afternoon, meeting with friends for company and drinks all night long. Arrived back at my room at 3:00am to an email from four hours earlier offering me the job.

Thursday, July 17, 2014

Traveled to Durham. Met with phil. dept. people and other candidates for dinner: Not as awkward as you might think.

Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Wednesday, July 16, 2014

It's been very hard to concentrate today.

Reading

Writing

  • Worked on slides

Revising

Refereeing

  • Processed another JoLLI sub that now has both reviews.

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Reading

  • Reviewing all the relevant paperwork for later this week.

Writing

  • Working on slides for Friday. 17 is too many.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Monday, July 14, 2014

Monday, July 14, 2014

Reading

  • The Computational Theory of Mind in SEP.
  • Mind/Body Identity in SEP.
  • The Mind in Buddhism in SEP.
  • The Chinese Room in SEP.
  • Language of Thought Hypothesis in SEP.

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • More travel arrangements for this week.
  • Wrote up some questions.
  • Cleaned up my desk a bit.
  • Worked on updating the Anselm email list some.

Friday, July 11, 2014

Friday, July 11, 2014

And other stuff.

Reading

  • Finished reading Hinzen (2012). Fascinating! There's a paragraph in there that could be talking about supposition theory, but never mentions it, weird.

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Thursday, July 10, 2014

Thursday, July 10, 2014

Reading

  • Wolfram Hinzen, "Prospects for an Explanatory Theory of Semantics", Biolinguistics 2, no. 4 (2008): 348-363.
  • Zombies.
  • Hinzen, "The Philosophical Significance of Universal Grammar".

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Lots of prep for next week's trip.

Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

  • Continued reading paper for Synthese.

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • Assorted prep for travel next week.

Monday, July 7, 2014

Monday, July 7, 2014

Around 15:00, received news which was rather distracting. Didn't get much done after that...

Reading

Writing

Revising

  • Metascience proof reviewing AGAIN. And there are STILL TWO ERRORS.

Refereeing

  • Very awesome news: I (with three others) will be thematic editors for the next volume of Onoma. The topic: "Medieval Multiculturalism: The Evidence from Names". Just got the reply from the editorial board last night!
  • Read a paper to referee for Synthese.

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • Post-conference partial bag clean-out.

Friday, July 4, 2014

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

  • Travel home from ISSA.

Miscellaneous

Thursday, July 3, 2014

Thursday,July 3, 2014

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

  • ISSA Day 2.

Miscellaneous

Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

  • ISSA Day 1: Gave my talk, it went well.

Miscellaneous

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

  • Travel to Amsterdam for ISSA.

Miscellaneous

Monday, June 30, 2014

Monday, June 30, 2014

Reading

  • Some grant proposal stuff

Writing

  • Proofreading for HRJ.

Revising

  • Well, I got the ESMLS paper spellchecked...

Refereeing

  • JoLLI referee searching.

Teaching

  • Finished reading and commenting on final student paper.

Conferences

Miscellaneous

June resolution review

Submissions

TitleSubmittedRevision requestedResubmittedAccepted
"Logic and Semantic Theory in the High Middle Ages"11 June 2013invited book chapter
"Paul of Venice on a Puzzle About Uncertainty"24 June 2013
"Sit Verum and Counterfactual Reasoning13 August 201310 March 20142 April 2014
"The Logic of Categorematic and Syncategorematic Infinity"14 January 201417 April 201416 May 2014
"Obligationes" (with Catarina Dutilh Novaes)27 March 201428 March 201408 April 201415 April 2014
"Reasoning About Obligations in Obligationes: A Formal Approach"08 April 20142 June 201419 May 2014
"Code-Switched Occupational and Descriptive Phrases in 15th-Century York: A Study of Medieval Bilingualism"10 April 201410 June 2014
"Review of Marko Malink, Aristotle's Modal Syllogistic"14 April 2014
"Intuitionistic Provability and the Structuralist Account of Modal Operators"21 May 201403 June 2014
"Dialectical Self-Refutation and Năgărjuna's Discussion in Six Points (ṣaṭkoṭiko vădaḥ)" (with Birgit Kellner)26 June 2014

This month's paper only sort of counts. Birgit and I are co-writing it, and I got my part to a point last week where I can't do any more without her. It's close to being finished, but it's not actually finished.

2014 Publications

TitlePublication info
"A Medieval Epistemic Puzzle"in Z. Christoff, P. Galeazzi, N. Giersimczuck, A. Marcoci, & S. Smets, LIRa Yearbook 2012, vol. 1 (Amsterdam: Institute for Logic, Language & Computation, 2014): 301-316.
"Medieval Destinations: Lumbini"Tournaments Illuminated 190 (2014): 33.

Friday, June 27, 2014

Friday, June 27, 2014

Reading

Writing

  • Finished slides for next week.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

  • Oh, yeah. There's that late paper that we received. I should read it.

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Thursday, June 26, 2014

Thursday, 26 June 2014

Reading

  • Sundholm, "Inference vs. Consequence", Logica Yearbook 1997.

Writing

  • ESMLS 12, since there's still time for it.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

  • Jour Fixe

Miscellaneous

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Reading

Writing

  • Paper + slides for ISSA. Well, mostly slides. But they're mostly done! And I don't give my talk until next Wednesday morning!

Revising

  • Proofed Malink review again

Refereeing

  • JoLLI work.

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Reading

Writing

  • CL
  • Six points. Maybe I'm done?

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • Wrote up info for Parul to write letter to DB complaining about their train service two weeks ago.
  • Packaged up various things to take to the post office, and took them.
  • Ran other errands over lunch.

Monday, June 23, 2014

Monday, June 23, 2014

Reading

Writing

  • CL
  • 6 points

Revising

Refereeing

  • JoLLI work.

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • Left early to go to Gwen's parents' day at daycare at 15:30.

Friday, June 20, 2014

Friday, June 20, 2014

Reading

Writing

  • Lumbini paper.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Reading

Writing

  • Lumbini paper.
  • CL.

Revising

Refereeing

  • Reviewed JoLLI revision.

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • Post-travel catch-up.

Monday, June 16, 2014

Monday, June 16, 2014

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

  • ESMLS final day
  • Cambridge companion workshop.

Miscellaneous

Sunday, June 15, 2014

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

  • ESMSL Day 4
  • Breakfast meeting w/ B.

Miscellaneous

Friday, June 13, 2014

Friday, June 13, 2014

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

  • ESMLS day 2.

Miscellaneous

Thursday, June 12, 2014

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

  • Submitted decision for another JoLLI MS.

Teaching

Conferences

  • ESMLS Day 1.
  • Had dinner with Benedikt to discuss our talk.

Miscellaneous

Thursday, June 12, 2014

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

  • travel to ESMLS. Full of fail.

Miscellaneous

Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Reading

Writing

  • Lumbini paper.
  • slides for ESMLS.

Revising

  • Proofs for my review of Malink. I suppose I should be pleased that it's taken this long for me to get such an atrociously formatted piece to proof, but that doesn't make me any more happier for having to go in and fix basically every formula.
  • Oops, realized rather late that AiML short paper final versions were due yesterday; fixed!

Refereeing

Teaching

  • Printed off final term paper.

Conferences

  • Printed off travel arrangements for ESMLS.
  • Mailed off M&M reimbursement.

Miscellaneous

  • Scanned things for Joel and went to the post office.

Friday, June 6, 2014

Friday, June 6, 2014

Reading

Writing

  • Worked on Lumbini paper.
  • worked on ESMLS paper.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

  • More teaching related prep for fall. Whoohoo! I'm officially signed up to teach intro onomastics in fall!

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Thursday, June 5, 2014

Thursday, June 5, 2014

Reading

Writing

  • More notes and emails for ESMLS
  • What better way to bolster your confidence then prepare job application cover letters? NOT.

Revising

Refereeing

  • JoLLI revised MS

Teaching

  • Put together info about what I want to teach in fall.

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Reading

  • Buridan

Writing

  • Got too many projects on plates already? Worried about how to complete everything? What's the solution? Start a new paper! Yeah, Sara, very smart...wrote about 2 pages and the rest of the outline, and then decided to be sensible.

Revising

  • Some of the easier comments for the code-switching paper. I haven't read them all in detail yet (I have to take referee reports slowing and in small doses), but one comment made me laugh, as it described me as "a medievalist". I've succeeded!

Refereeing

  • JoLLI work.

Teaching

Conferences

  • Confirmed last speaker for AREW, settled on date, and started making room arrangements.

Miscellaneous

Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Daycare called around 14:30. Gwen and I spent about 1.5 hours at the park.

Reading

  • Various Swyneshead and insolubilia.

Writing

  • ESMLS stuff.

Revising

Refereeing

  • More JoLLI work. Received the strangest decline to a request to referee today.

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • Spent far more time trying to sort out travel to Cambridge than planned.

Monday, June 2, 2014

Monday, June 2, 2014

Dunno precisely why, but by the end of the day, I was exhausted.

Reading

  • Rereading Swyneshed/Spade/insolubilia material.

Writing

  • Brainstorming with Benedikt for ESMLS.
  • Wrote some blurbs for Analogical Reasoning workshop, and invited the other two speakers.

Revising

  • Well then! I printed of my AiML reviews to finally read them and start revising...and found that not a single one of the three referees had any points for improvement, and many points of compliment. Wow. That's very happyifying. And made for revising easy.

Refereeing

  • JoLLI assignments

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Saturday, May 31, 2014

May resolution review

Submissions

TitleSubmittedRevision requestedResubmittedAccepted
"Logic and Semantic Theory in the High Middle Ages"11 June 2013invited book chapter
"Paul of Venice on a Puzzle About Uncertainty"24 June 2013
"Sit Verum and Counterfactual Reasoning13 August 201310 March 20142 April 2014
"The Logic of Categorematic and Syncategorematic Infinity"14 January 201417 April 201416 May 2014
"Obligationes" (with Catarina Dutilh Novaes)27 March 201428 March 201408 April 201415 April 2014
"Reasoning About Obligations in Obligationes: A Formal Approach"08 April 201419 May 2014
"Code-Switched Occupational and Descriptive Phrases in 15th-Century York: A Study of Medieval Bilingualism"10 April 2014
"Review of Marko Malink, Aristotle's Modal Syllogistic"14 April 2014
"Intuitionistic Provability and the Structuralist Account of Modal Operators"21 May 2014

This month's resolution paper was a short paper for AiML'14; it won't be a real publication, but I'm stuck on my question and can't get forward to a real paper without input from real logicians, so hopefully that'll be the time to do it.

2014 Publications

TitlePublication info
"A Medieval Epistemic Puzzle"in Z. Christoff, P. Galeazzi, N. Giersimczuck, A. Marcoci, & S. Smets, LIRa Yearbook 2012, vol. 1 (Amsterdam: Institute for Logic, Language & Computation, 2014): 301-316.
"Medieval Destinations: Lumbini"Tournaments Illuminated 190 (2014): 33.

Friday, May 30, 2014

Friday, May 30, 2014

Reading

  • Read the slides of a presentation in HD I was unable to attend last week.

Writing

  • Worked on Lumbini proceedings.

Revising

Refereeing

  • JoLLI editorial stuff. I've reached my second assignment disposition.

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • Um. So that's a job I just started an application to.
  • Caught up on email.
  • Post-conference bag-cleaning.

Thursday, May 29, 2014

Thursday, May 29, 2014

Got out to daycare this morning...it's suspiciously dark. And quiet. And empty. Oh. Today's ascension day: Daycare is closed. Gwen is now sitting on my floor eating breakfast that we picked up at a cafe, and I just won't care about getting lots of work done today.

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • Post event/travel catch-up.

Saturday, May 24, 2014

Saturday, May 24, 2014

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

  • Day 3 of M&M: Oh, boy, so many more paper ideas!

Miscellaneous

Friday, May 23, 2014

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

  • Day 2 of M&M

Miscellaneous

Thursday, May 22, 2014

Thursday, May 22, 2014

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

  • M&M first day; my talk opened things and went well!

Miscellaneous

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Reading

Writing

  • Finished M&M slides
  • Some DMNES entries

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

  • Traveled to Lund for M&M

Miscellaneous

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Reading

Writing

  • My AiML paper was accepted!! Whoo!! What a great way to start off the morning.
  • Worked on tweaking my short paper, since I need to make sure it's 5 pages WITH my name included. Arg. Still, I was able to submit it before lunch. Yay! That's May's resolution paper.
  • Slides for M&M

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

  • Came up with a first attempt at grading on the weird German scale for the three Buddhist logic papers we've received so far.

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Monday, May 19, 2014

Monday, May 19, 2014

Reading

Writing

  • Slides for M & M.
  • Short paper for AiML -- it was mostly written, so it wasn't much work to copy, cut down to size, write a few more thoughts, and *poof*. I would've submitted it tonight but the eColloq started, and I should probably proofread it in the morning..
  • DMNES entries.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

  • eColloq.

Miscellaneous

Friday, May 16, 2014

Friday, May 16, 2014

Reading

  • Pasnau, "William Heytesbury on Knowledge: Epistemology Without Necessary and Sufficient Conditions", History of Philosophy Quarterly 12, no. 4 (1995): 347-366.

Writing

  • Abstract for M&M tutorial.
  • Day 0 of Scotland trip.

Revising

  • FotFS. I think the thing to do is to just omit what Longeway says about Heytesbury. And somehow or other I managed to muddle through all the rest, and submit the revision!

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Thursday, May 15, 2014

Thursday, May 15, 2014

Reading

  • Hintikka, "Different Kinds of Equivocation in Aristotle", Journal of the History of Philosophy 9, no. 3 (1971): 368-372.
  • Longeway's entry on Heytesbury in the Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy.

Writing

Revising

  • FotFS revisions.

Refereeing

  • JoLLI stuff.

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • Serious post-travel catch-up.

Sunday, May 4, 2014

Sunday, May 4, 2014

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

  • I was asked to give informal feedback on a paper for AiML.

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Friday, May 2, 2014

Friday, May 2, 2014

Reading

Writing

  • Various DMNES entries.

Revising

  • Bibliography for Ob book.
  • I was going to try to finish up my FotFS paper revisions, but then realized I'd left my print out of the draft + the referees' comments at home.
  • So instead I printed off a copy of the obbook draft in order to start hacking and slashing.

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • Print off ALL the things for next week's trip.

Thursday, May 1, 2014

Thursday, May 1, 2014

Nominally a holiday today; Gwen is home from daycare.

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

  • More JoLLI referee searching.

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

April Resolution Review

Submissions

TitleSubmittedRevision requestedResubmittedAccepted
"Logic and Semantic Theory in the High Middle Ages"11 June 2013invited book chapter
"Paul of Venice on a Puzzle About Uncertainty"24 June 2013
"Sit Verum and Counterfactual Reasoning13 August 201310 March 20142 April 2014
"The Logic of Categorematic and Syncategorematic Infinity"14 January 201417 April 2014
"Medieval Destinations: Lumbini"28 January 201418 February 2014
"Obligationes" (with Catarina Dutilh Novaes)27 March 201428 March 201408 April 201415 April 2014
"Reasoning About Obligations in Obligationes: A Formal Approach"08 April 2014
"Code-Switched Occupational and Descriptive Phrases in 15th-Century York: A Study of Medieval Bilingualism"10 April 2014
"Review of Marko Malink, Aristotle's Modal Syllogistic"14 April 2014

The code-switching paper is the one I wrote in March, and the obligationes paper is my AiML paper written in Feb. The review was an invited one, and technically not due until early May, so, hurrah for finishing that up early.

2014 Publications

TitlePublication info
"A Medieval Epistemic Puzzle"in Z. Christoff, P. Galeazzi, N. Giersimczuck, A. Marcoci, & S. Smets, LIRa Yearbook 2012, vol. 1 (Amsterdam: Institute for Logic, Language & Computation, 2014): 301-316.

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Reading

Writing

  • And so, it begins: After an incredibly energizing talk in Karlsruhe yesterday, I've done what I've said I'm going to one day do for some years now, and have created obbook.tex. Roughly 2 hours to cut and paste everything, and it is 199 pages. Not too shabby to start with! And then I worked on the bibliography.
  • AND I finished entering all the data from EEW! Today was a good day.

Revising

Refereeing

  • JoLLI.

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • Prepared travel expense claim for Karlsruhe -- for all 11.80EUR of it.

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Reading

Writing

  • Wrote some DMNES entries on the train.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

  • Went to Karlsruhe to give a presentation/participate in a discussion meeting on one of my papers. That, plus lunch, happened in the afternoon, so in the morning I went to Gerstäcker, and that took up the whole day.

Miscellaneous

Monday, April 28, 2014

Monday, April 28, 2014

Reading

Writing

  • Sent off Onoma proposal.
  • Prepared notes for tomorrow's talk in Karlsruhe.
  • More DMNES entries.
  • A quick blog post for FtE.

Revising

Refereeing

  • Hunting down more referees.

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • Post-event email catch-up.

Thursday, April 24, 2014

Thursday, April 24, 2014

We're having out of town SCAdian guests the next two nights, so I left around 12:30 to pick them up from the train station and bring them home.

Reading

Writing

Revising

  • FotFS revising. The comments really were pretty minor! I'm down to just four left to deal with.

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

After nearly a week of non-standard work days/holidays/etc., back to the grind.

Reading

Writing

  • A short explanatory note for my talk in K-ruhe next Tues.
  • DMNES stuff.

Revising

  • Code-switching paper was returned (some extensive referee reports, yay), so I started reformatting it for the next venue.
  • Proofread the intro to the GPMR volume.

Refereeing

  • New JoLLI assignment; reviewed article and sent off three referee requests.

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • Assorted SCA stuff.
  • Assorted other bookkeeping type things, nothing in and of itself significant enough to write elsewhere, but still it took most of the day.

Monday, April 21, 2014

Monday, April 21, 2014

Technically still a holiday, but since I didn't really get much done Wed. afternoon or Thurs., and I'm taking tomorrow off, Joel said he'd take today as a holiday to be primary Gwen entertainer so that I can get SOMETHING done.

Reading

  • Proofread Thora's most recent article.

Writing

  • Finally got around to finishing an FtE blogpost I started in February: ironic, considering the title..
  • Worked on Onoma special issue proposal.

Revising

Refereeing

  • Wrote a referee report on a revision for RP.

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • A lot of heraldic doc/conflict check catch-up that I'd been promising people.

Thursday, April 17, 2014

Thursday, April 17, 2014

Home with Gwen all day due to the eye infection.

Reading

Writing

Revising

  • My FotFS paper has been accepted with minor revisions! Yay!

Refereeing

  • Made a decision on another JoLLI entry.

Teaching

  • Finished reading/grading 3rd seminar paper.

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • Ran out to the office in the morning to deal with insurance and kindergeld.

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Got back with lunch to news that Joel had gone to pick Gwen up from daycare, so after eating I went home, and didn't get much done the rest of the day.

Reading

Writing

  • Working through EEW.

Revising

Refereeing

  • Some JoLLI work.

Teaching

  • Got another seminar paper today, and started reading/grading it.

Conferences

  • Sent off my LIRa12 paper to Betz in Karlsruhe; I think that's what I want to talk about there in two weeks' time.

Miscellaneous

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Reading

  • Finished reading Perrett.
  • Read up on typeswitching in XQuery.

Writing

  • CNF entries. Because I can't do any more coding. :(

Revising

  • Converted Malink review from TeX to DOC.

Refereeing

Teaching

  • Finished up second student paper.

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • Went to the post office over lunch
  • Tried to ask some questions about eXist-db/XML stuff that SHOULD be easy and yet is amazingly not. Eventually got an answer to ONE of my questions!

Monday, April 14, 2014

Monday, April 14, 2014

Reading

  • Read more of Perrett.

Writing

Revising

  • More proofreading of Malink review, and send it off. Came in at just over 3300 words, which is sensible.

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

  • Meetings and colloquium in the afternoon.

Miscellaneous

  • Spent part of the morning shopping with Joel for our trip in May. Sales!

Friday, April 11, 2014

Friday, April 11, 2014

Reading

  • Roy W. Perret, "Self-Refutation in Indian Philosophy".

Writing

Revising

  • Proofreading my Malink review.
  • LoAR proofreading.

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

  • Printed off lots and lots of initials for my class tomorrow.

Miscellaneous

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Reading

Writing

  • Wrote a first draft of the Malink review; right now I'm running about 1000 words too many, but have decided to wait on ruthless cutting until I find out from the editor how strict the 2500 word count is.
  • Lumbini paper.
  • More correspondence with IJB people since I doubt that my uploading the files again will result in any difference. Eventually, I figured out the trick: convert the PDFs to PS and then upload those, so they can be converted back to PDF. Gah! Stupid. But hey, it's back in submission.
  • More in the DMNES want-list.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • Printed off assorted travel docs for next week's trip to Sweden.

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Reading

Writing

  • Trying to determine what is wrong with my code again. Arg.
  • Needed something relatively brainless, so returned to my review of Malink, since I'm at the "type up notes" stage.
  • Emailed DFG to see if having a kid means I'm still potentially eligible for EM.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

  • Spent the morning meeting with Birgit discussing our Lumbini paper and the joys of grant proposals.

Miscellaneous

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Reading

Writing

  • Writing up my paper for Karlsruhe presentation.
  • Worked on converting slides to text for meeting with Birgit tomorrow.
  • OK, ok, I wrote a bunch of CNF files...

Revising

  • AiML'14 due tomorrow, so worked some more on Joel's comments; will talk to him tonight about the few remaining questions I have on his questions.
  • Arg, manuscriptcentral cannot process the files I uploaded, despite the fact that they are all file formats that it says it accepts! Have emailed journal editor to find out what to do: This is not a problem on my end.

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Monday, April 7, 2014

Monday, April 7, 2014

Reading

  • Read and commented on Thora's newest article.
  • Read more on TEI dictionary entries, to think a bit more about how to structure CNF files.

Writing

  • Submitted code-switching paper.
  • Rewrote the DMNES editor's guide.

Revising

Refereeing

  • Reviewed a paper for the NASSLLI student session.

Teaching

Conferences

  • Had lunch with someone from the classics department who is interested in etymologies. whoo!

Miscellaneous

Friday, April 4, 2014

Friday, April 4, 2014

Reading

Writing

  • CNF and VNF entries

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

  • Second day of MAD|HD

Miscellaneous

Thursday, April 3, 2014

Thursday, April 3, 2014

Reading

Writing

  • Tweaked my slides for this afternoon a bit.

Revising

  • Joel got me his comments on my AiML paper (yay!) so I spent the morning working through them.

Refereeing

Teaching

  • Grading another student paper.

Conferences

  • Wrote my final abstract (130 words!) for ISSA and submitted it.
  • MAD|HD: The DMNES's first public outing!

Miscellaneous

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Reading

Writing

Revising

  • Revised those last Latin translations on Sit Verum, and resubmitted the paper.
  • Updated my slides a bit for MAD|HD tomorrow.
  • Proof read the intro for the GPMR volume.

Refereeing

Teaching

  • Read/commented on one of the two student papers we've received. (Hmmm....where are the others??)

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • Extensive detailed plans for honeymoon trip.

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Reading

Writing

  • It's no joke! The first real writing of DMNES entries began today.
  • Also began writing the Malink review.

Revising

  • Worked on revising my sit verum paper; I'm just about down other than proofreading the English translations
  • Sent Catarina some comments regarding the revision of our chapter.

Refereeing

Teaching

  • Got another student paper last night.

Conferences

  • Registered for ISSA.

Miscellaneous

  • 10th anniversary honeymoon planning.
  • Got the DMNES technical files under version control, finally....and then realized that something had gotten screwed up again, so time to yet again uninstall eXist-db and re-install it. I'm really beginning to hate being forced to use it. However, I THINK I now have everything in it in the right place and the important stuff under version control. Time to call it a day.

Monday, March 31, 2014

March Resolution Review

I've decided to keep track of all my submitted papers here rather than on the whiteboard on my desk, since then the whiteboard can be used for actual white-board purposes, like writing down logic. So, I've added the four things which were submitted last year on which I'm still awaiting responses.

TitleSubmittedRevision requestedResubmittedAccepted
"Logic and Semantic Theory in the High Middle Ages"11 June 2013invited book chapter
"Paul of Venice on a Puzzle About Uncertainty"24 June 2013
"Sit Verum and Counterfactual Reasoning13 August 201310 March 2014
"A Medieval Epistemic Puzzle"02 October 2013
"The Logic of Categorematic and Syncategorematic Infinity"14 January 2014
"Medieval Destinations: Lumbini"28 January 201418 February 2014
"Reasoning About Obligations in Obligationes: A Formal Approach"27 February 2014 (abstract only)
"Obligationes" (with Catarina Dutilh Novaes)27 March 201428 March 2014/td>

I had a paper ready to submit for March (other than the ob chapter), but a friend asked to read it, and I'm waiting on her comments before I submit. It'll probably go out early next week.

Removed MLitM from the list, since I received a (fairly quick for the journal in question) rejection on 11 Mar. I feel I still haven't identified the correct venue for it, as it's rather idiosyncratic.

Here's another table that will hopefully fill in over the course of the year:

TitlePublication info

Monday, March 31, 2014

I had two goals for today: To finish reading Malink, and to start my slides for Thursday.

Reading

  • Finished Malink. Whoo!

Writing

  • Created file to start writing my review.
  • Worked on slides for Thursday.

Revising

Refereeing

  • Since I think some of my first-chosen referees are going to fall through, spent some time looking for alternates.

Teaching

  • Oh, joy, final papers from last semester's seminar have started trickling in.

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Saturday, March 29, 2014

Saturday, March 29, 2014

Lookit me, getting work done on the weekend!

Reading

Writing

  • Vortexians are planning to submit a proposal for a themed section in Onoma. I wrote up a first draft today.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Friday, March 28, 2014

Friday, March 28, 2014

Reading

  • Realized I need to get a move on finishing reading Malink if I want to have my review written by the end of next month. By the end of the day, I was down to one chapter, plus the appendices, bibliography, and index.

Writing

  • Wrote the next version of the DMNES editors handbook, and created the wiki on git for the repository of templates, etc..

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Thursday, March 27, 2014

Thursday, March 27, 2014

Reading

Writing

  • having nearly finished the code-switching paper, I had an idea for another one. So I spent the afternoon working on data from Northants, 1301.

Revising

  • Mom's proofreading comments on code-switching, and then doing all the futzing I need to do to submit. Arg, I hate trying to get reasonably accurate wordcounts. And why can't I submit a PDF? Why do you make me convert my PDF figures to JPG and then upload them separately? Why do you say "10 or 12 point font" in one place but "12 point" in another? Why do you want section headers to be unnumbered so that xrefs within the paper don't work? Why must you ask for endnotes? Why, why, why?

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • Had a late lunch with Joel and then ran errands.

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Reading

Writing

  • Compiled bibliography for ob chapter, made a few tweaks to the chapter itself and sent it back to Catarina. I believe my work on the chapter is basically done.
  • Wrote up April 1 LoI issuing guide.
  • Wrote a first draft of the DMNES editor's guide.

Revising

Refereeing

  • Wrote a referee report for an FWO project proposal.

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • Finally rented a car for Crown.
  • Did not forget to buy diapers while on lunch.
  • Wanted to start a DMNES editor's guide, but had to spend some time messing with git first.

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Reading

  • Proofread Thora's 2nd draft of her article.

Writing

  • Uniformization, prettification, and proofreading of ob chapter, and just managed to finish it up in time to send it back to Catarina before leaving. Bibliography tomorrow.
  • Some very small changes to code-switch, and then sent it to Rachel and Genny.

Revising

Refereeing

  • Invited a bunch of referees for new JoLLI sub.

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • More post travel email catch-up including a bunch of Eurostar surveys.

Monday, March 24, 2014

Monday, March 24, 2014

Trip home from Oxford/London today.

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

  • Received, and accepted another JoLLI sub.

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • Caught up on a lot of the post event email (but not all), on the train.

Saturday, March 22, 2014

Thursday, March 20, 2014

Spent most of the day on the train to London.

Reading

Writing

  • Got some input on the stats, and finished up the code-switching paper to a point where I could mail it to people who were interested in reading a basically completed draft.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Reading

Writing

  • Worked on incorporating my notes into codeswitch. I have a conclusion! And an abstract! There are two todos left: One I simply need to revisit a secondary source to see if it says anything relevant. The other, I really really really need someone who knows statistics.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • Sorted out stuff for trip tomorrow.

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Reading

  • I have a new student assistant, and she shined forth with brilliance when she suggested that she could take all my paperwork over to the library and apply for my library card on my behalf. I said "yes please!" and sent her with all that AND a stack of books to check out, which I now get to read/skim:
    • Schendl, "Syntactic constraints on code-switching in medieval texts", in Placing Middle English in Context (2001).
    • Pahta, "Code-switching in medieval medical writing", in Medical and Scientific Writing in Late Medieval English (2004).
    • Phata & Nurmi, "Code-Switching in the Helsinki Corpus: A Thousand Years of Multilingual Practices", (2006).
    • Various in Schendl & Wright, Code-Switching in Early English (2011).

Writing

  • Lots of notes taken for code-switching. Maybe tomorrow I can write all of them up.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • Worked on figuring out how to convert bibtex -> TEI -> HTML in a nice way. The answer? Have someone else do it.
  • Tried to adapt a javascript timeline thingy to work for the DMNES. I really really really should be paying someone else to do this.

Monday, March 17, 2014

Monday, March 17, 2014

Reading

Writing

  • Mom sent me comments on AiML-2, just a few proofreading remarks, that I got through in the morning.
  • Managed to do a few more updates on code-switch.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

  • Final eXist-db training session.

Miscellaneous

Friday, March 14, 2014

Friday, March 14, 2014

Reading

  • Followed up on some pointers someone sent me in response to my question on med-grad. This was particularly interesting.
  • H. Schendl, 2002, "Mixed-Language Texts as Data and Evidence in {E}nglish Historical Linguistics".

Writing

  • Finally responded to Benedikt about our ESMLS paper.
  • Got lots of new notes and quotes for code-switch, and started incorporating them. I wish I knew more about statistics.
  • Suddenly had a nagging suspicion that I'd never spell-checked AiML-1. Since I've pretty much given up hope that Joel will proofread it for me before it's due next week (he's had it for A MONTH), this is no insignificant thing. And I was right: aspell caught four stupid typos.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • Worked on the design doc Arnfriður sent me concerning the DMNES website.

Thursday, March 13, 2014

Thursday, March 13, 2014

Reading

Writing

  • Code-switching: Nearly done!

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • DMNES coding; I added a bunch of new pages as placeholders for functionality we'd like to add, and also worked on writing a proper transform for the definitions.

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Reading

I decided today was going to be "clean PDFs off the desktop" day.

  • Dag Westerståhl, "On the Aristotelian Square of Opposition", (from his website).
  • Manley Thompson, "On Aristotle's Square of Opposition", Philosophical Review 62, no. 2 (1953): 251-265.
  • Nathaniel Mackey, "Other: From Noun to Verb", Representations 39 (1992): 51-70.
  • Ryuko Kubota, "Discursive Construction of the Images of US Classrooms", TESOL Quarterly 35, no. 1 (2001): 9-38 (only skimmed, as it turned out to be not relevant.)
  • Adam Jaworski & Justine Coupland, "Othering in Gossip: 'You Go out You Have a Laugh and You Can Pull Yeah Okay but Like...'", Language in Society 34, no. 5 (2005): 667-694. (ditto parenthetical above).
  • George Engelbretson, "The Square of Opposition", NDJFL 17, no. 4 (1976): 531-541.
  • More Malink while at lunch.

Writing

  • Worked on code-switching paper. When I printed off my pages of random blather and collected notes, I was quite pleased to find it was already 7 pages! I had a surprisingly productive day working on it; I wrote out about 1.5 pages of notes long-hand (a rare occurrence), and then spent a lot of time rearranging already written paragraphs into a sensible order. I felt like I was constantly cutting material, but the paper continually got longer, which is always a satisfying experience.

Revising

Refereeing

  • Received a referee report, so spent some time doing JoLLI stuff in the afternoon.

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Gwen's home from daycare today so we can treat a minor eye infection, but the dr. said she can go back tomorrow, thank goodness.

Reading

  • Proofread an article for a friend.

Writing

  • Re-wrote my CV to be suitable for the BA application.
  • Finished small tweaks and proofreading for the BA application, and sent it off! We should hear if we've made the first cut by the 20th.
  • Wrote a DMNES blog post.

Revising

  • MLitM has been returned from the most recent journal I submitted it too; I still haven't found the right venue for it, judging by the referee report.

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • Since I was at home and couldn't really do complicated work, I decided to write up a list of things I want/need to do for the DMNES, and started working on it.
  • E.g., created a github repo.
  • And worked to get the bibliographic citation webpage to work.
  • Exported names.sql and started trying to get the data into something that will extract and dump into XML files easily.

Monday, March 10, 2014

Monday, March 10, 2014

Reading

Writing

Revising

  • Hurrah! My Sit verum has been accepted to Vivarium, pending minor revisions.

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

  • eXist-db day 5

Miscellaneous

Friday, March 7, 2014

Friday, March 7, 2014

Reading

  • Karl Young, "An Interludium for a Gild of Corpus Christi", Modern Language Notes, 48, no. 2 (Feb. 1933): 84-86.
  • Hardin Craig, "Review of Early English Stages, 1300-1600", Speculum 34, no. 4 (1959): 702-705.
  • Mervyn James, "Ritual, Drama and Social Body in the Late Medieval English Town", Past & Present 98 (1983): 3-29.
  • Barbara J. Harris, "A New Look at the Reformation: Aristocratic Women and Nunneries, 1450-1540", Journal of British Studies 32 no. 2 (1993): 89-113. [This one was utterly irrelevant for my current work, but fascinating!]
  • Mary Catherine Davidson, "Code-switching and Authority in Late Medieval England", Neophilologus 87 (2003): 473-486.
  • Nicola McLelland, "A Historical Study of Codeswitching in Writing: German and Latin in Schotellius' Ausfürliche Arbeit von der Teutschen HaubtSprache (1663)", International Journal of Bilingualism 8, no. 4 (2004): 499-523.
  • Maud Sellers, "The City of York in the Sixteenth Century", The English Historical Review, 9, no. 34 (1894): 275-304.

Writing

  • A little bit of code-switching writing, while reading the above.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Thursday, March 6, 2014

Thursday, March 6, 2014

Reading

Writing

  • Code-switching paper: crunching data, making graphs.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Reading

Writing

  • Wrote up a proof-reading proposal.
  • Nearly completed our BA funding proposal.
  • Worked on the code-switch paper again.

Revising

Refereeing

  • Reviewed another paper for Res Philosophica.

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • Right before bed last night I finally got my XQuery code to return me results -- all the wrong ones, but results nonetheless. So I spent much of this morning fixing it, and actually managed to do so right before lunch.
  • And then after a productive time doing some writing and reviewing and cleaning out email from my inbox, I got back to this. AND IT NOW WORKS! I can actually see now why some people enjoy coding. When it doesn't work, it's mystifying, and when it does it's *fistpump*. Now to get the bibliographic citations to work.

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Reading

Writing

  • Worked some on code-switch before training started.
  • Worked on a grant proposal while in training. Oh yeah, baby.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

  • eXist-db training all day.

Miscellaneous

Monday, March 3, 2014

Monday, March 3, 2014

Reading

  • Read a new draft constitution.
  • Read a grant application I've been asked to review. Haven't started writing the report yet, as I have Thoughts and want to think on them for awhile longer.
  • Finished LoAR proofreading.

Writing

  • Work on the word-list for the code-switching paper. Nearly lost track of the time -- check the clock about 5 min. before I had to leave to get Gwen, thinking it was, oh, probably around 14:00.

Revising

  • Proofread the second proofs for the Lumbini piece.

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • The usual post-event/end of month email catch-up.
  • Worked some more on DMNES/eXist-homework stuff. I feel like we were not given sufficient detail and examples in the previous class.

Sunday, March 2, 2014

Friday, February 28, 2014

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

  • eXist-db training day 3: all day.

Miscellaneous

Friday, February 28, 2014

Resolution Review: February

TitleSubmittedRevision requestedResubmittedAccepted
"The Logic of Categorematic and Syncategorematic Infinity"14 January 2014
"Modal Logic in the Metalogicon"24 January 2014
"Medieval Destinations: Lumbini"28 January 201418 February 2014
"Reasoning About Obligations in Obligationes: A Formal Approach"27 February 2014 (abstract only)

To be honest, I finished the last paper on the list in the middle of the month (13 Feb.). I'd hoped to have it submitted before the end of the month, but I gave it to Joel to proofread and he hasn't had time yet, and I'd rather screw up on my resolutions than submit it without a sanity check. But I at least submitted the abstract for it, since those are due before the full papers are anyway.

Thursday, February 27, 2014

Thursday, February 27, 2014

Reading

Writing

  • Worked on my occupational terms paper.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • Did some more travel arrangements.

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Reading

Writing

  • Luckily, I ended up NOT having to re-write my FtE post, which was accidentally deleted yesterday, when I remembered that there should be a copy of it in my oldreader feed, and it was. So, hurrah cut & paste.
  • Worked on an idea I have for a Nomina paper even if it isn't, oops, quite on names.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

  • I'll put this down under "meetings": Joel came out today so I could talk at him about AiML1. I need to verbalize things to another logician.

Miscellaneous

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Reading

  • Read more in Malink.
  • Oops. I fell down the googlebooks hole. This seems to happen about once a week.

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • Worked on my eXist-db homework again. I'm not sure I understand the final assignment, but I've done the best I could (and tweaked the others so that they are not only correct, but not entirely ugly.)

Monday, February 24, 2014

Monday, February 24, 2014

Reading

  • It was a good morning for reading in the sun. So I read more of Malink. On to part III!

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • Ran errands during lunch break

Friday, February 21, 2014

Friday, February 21, 2014

Reading

Writing

  • Worked on revamping my Welsh Households Names paper for a non-SCA audience.
  • Worked on a blog post for FtE.
  • Still feeling in a weird slump after finishing AiML2 last week. Normally it doesn't take me a week to recover from writing a paper. So I went and worked on converting Imola formatting for awhile. At least it's mindless.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Thursday, February 20, 2014

Thursday, February 20, 2014

Reading

Writing

  • Followed up on the notes taken during my skype w/ Catarina last week, and sent her the next version of our chapter. I expect the next version I sent her will be either the ultimate or penultimate version.
  • Pulled out my Imola paper to try to revise it for an onomastics journal. Names has a word limit of 5000! That's shockingly small. Guess I'll have to cut out a lot of the examples. But first, golly, reformatting a paper YET AGAIN is a RIGHTEOUS PAIN.

Revising

Refereeing

  • A little bit of IEP work.

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • I really needed another non-research day, so I worked on the XQuery homework again. Last night Joel was able to help me restructure my DMNES test query; I needed a lot more recursion than I had.

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

After yesterday's logic frustration (talked to Joel about it some in the evening, and maybe he'll come out some time this week to talk to me), I decided today was a day for doing non-research work.

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

  • Not exactly refereeing, but last night I read a short-story that someone had sent me for feedback regarding the names, so today I wrote up my notes concerning them.

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • Worked on eXist-db homework. And then flouted it and tried to make data that I could then query in advance of the DMNES. I can make really ugly webpages that query incomplete data! Whoo!
  • Ran errands for Joel on lunch break.

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Tuesday, 18 February 2014

Reading

  • Jennings, "Natural Frames and Self-dual Logics", Fundamenta Informaticae 2001.
  • Ava's article on orphan's clothing.

Writing

  • More progress on AiML1, but not as much as I should have made. I keep kicking the same wall, and I'm not quite sure what to do. Times like these, I miss having a real logician or two around.
  • I was in a right funk for much of the afternoon, even onomastics didn't make things better, at least not right away.

Revising

  • Reviewed author proofs for TI article.

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

  • Began organizing a workshop on analogical reasoning.

Miscellaneous

  • Organized assorted travel.

Monday, February 17, 2014

Monday, February 17, 2014

Reading

  • Knuuttila & Hallamaa, "Roger Roseth and Medieval Deontic Logic", Logique et Analyse.
  • Ru Michael Sabre, "Completing the Square of Oppositions", Argumentation 3 (1989): 97-107, 'cause then I can get it off my desktop.

Writing

  • AiML2 went so well, why not work on AiML1 for awhile? I've already got 10 pages, only 5 more to go.
  • Wrote another version of the DMNES proposal and sent it off to someone whom I hope can help us write a shema!

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • More post-paper-finishing desk cleaning. I can actually see portions of it!

Friday, February 14, 2014

Friday, February 14, 2014

Reading

  • Read more of Malink, since eventually I am going to have to write that review.

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • In the usual post-finishing-paper routine, I spent a lot of time cleaning my desk, scanning stuff, dealing with correspondence, etc.

Thursday, February 13, 2014

Thursday, February 13, 2014

Reading

Writing

  • Proofread AiML14. It took longer than it should because I kept getting distracted by the shiny which is my newly finished crown. Pictures were posted on FB!

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

  • Intro to TEI training this morning. I learned three very important things in it: 1. I am wholly incompetent on a German keyboard, and touch pads are of the devil because you keep touching them when you don't want them. 2. I never want to edit XML in a "smart" editor ever again. I will do all of my XML editing in VIM, tyvm. 3. XML/TEI seems like a sad, sad excuse for LaTeX. I had two pages worth of XML'ed text, and it took oXygen 34 seconds to compile a very ugly PDF.

Miscellaneous

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Reading

Writing

  • It's always nice to start off the morning with an idea about what to do with a recalcitrant paragraph in the paper you're writing while biking out to the office. I made it onto 16 pages in mid afternoon, and with still half an hour before leaving got it back onto 15 pages with no todos left and a conclusion written. Whoo! Tomorrow, proof-reading. Then bring a version home for Joel to proofread. Maybe Monday submit?

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Reading

Writing

  • Back to Burley and AiML. I've got about 1.25 pages left before I reach my limit.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

  • HRA training class 9-11

Miscellaneous

Monday, February 10, 2014

Monday, February 10, 2014

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

  • eXist training day 2

Miscellaneous

Thursday, February 6, 2014

Thursday, February 8, 2014

Reading

Writing

  • AiML14 (and I received a poster for that conference in the mail today, whoo! alas, due to safety reasons, I can no longer tape it to the front of my door. I wonder if anyone would notice if I put it on the back?)
  • Finally read Catarina's parts of the obligationes chapter, though specifically without making editing notes, in advance of skype meeting in the afternoon.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

  • Skyped with Catarina about chapter, for, gosh, nearly an hour. The ball's in my court now, but I'm not going to worry about it since she doesn't want it back until the 24th.

Miscellaneous

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Today's Joel's birthday, so I took the day off to spend it with him.

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Reading

Writing

  • AiML14 #2. I think I'm at the point where I've got two (possibly three) sections left to write: An explanation of Burley's solution + discussion of the other two objections (if possible); a comparison with related work, which I already have plenty of notes for; and a conclusion. Even when I try to omit as much of the historical background as I can, it still takes 1/3 of a 15 page paper to outline everything I need before I can jump into the fun stuff!

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

  • I should change the header of this to "conferences and meetings". Joel, Eric, and I met to talk about DMNES stuff.

Miscellaneous

  • Scanned in some of Gwen's drawings, so as to keep them but throw away the originals.

Monday, February 3, 2014

Monday, February 3, 2014

Reading

Writing

  • Got a very little bit done on AiML14 before having to go off to the training session, and a little bit more during lunch break.
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Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

  • First of six 6.5 hour training sessions with eXist-db. We'll see how many of them I actually go to.

Miscellaneous

Friday, January 31, 2014

January Resolution Review

TitleSubmittedRevision requestedResubmittedAccepted
"The Logic of Categorematic and Syncategorematic Infinity"14 January 2014
"Modal Logic in the Metalogicon"24 January 2014
"Medieval Destinations: Lumbini"28 January 2014

Friday, January 31, 2014

Reading

Writing

  • Back to AiML2 in the morning, until it was time to teach.
  • After teaching, I so totally lost any mojo whatsoever to do real work, so I gave myself an afternoon for onomastic stuff.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

  • Last day of classes! Winter semester is over!

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Thursday, January 30, 2014

Thursday, January 30, 2014

Reading

  • Lots more DMNES related reading. XQuery, XSLT, XPath, all these acronyms to learn...And, my god, are some of them boring. I very nearly fell asleep while reading about XSL-FO (something which I have decided I will never, ever use if I have any say in the matter).

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Reading

  • PPC, "The Logic of Knowledge-Based Obligations", Synthese.
  • Hilpinen, "Deontic Logic".
  • Receive another DMNES-planning related email. Woo!

Writing

  • Had a productive day working on AiML2. Really productive. I hardly got distracted at all.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Day started off on the wrong foot with forgetting my keys at home. Arg. Set me back ~20 min. to bike home, get them, and bike back. It was a long day, with an evening talk meaning I was out at the office for about 11 hours all told.

Reading

  • Kretzmann & Stump's translation of De Arte Obligatoria.
  • Sought out what others have said about Paul of Venice and the syllogistic. Came across a review by Perreiah of Broadie's edition/trans. of a part of the LM, where P. suggests that the LM is not by PoV! I've never seen such a view before!
  • Knuuttila, "The Medieval Background of Modern Modal Conceptions", Theoria 66, no. 2 (2001). [Did not have anything about deontic modalities in it.]
  • Wolenski, "Deontic Logic and Possible Worlds: A Historical Sketch", Studia Logica 49, no. 2 (1990).

Writing

  • Wrote my "Medieval Destinations: Lumbini" piece for TI and send it off.
  • Finished the translation of the Logica Parva on syllogisms, though I'm unhappy with my translation of habetur reducendo.
  • Returned to my second AiML paper. I hate trying to write the same three introductory paragraphs differently in each paper. Working on this led me to some web searches which lead me to dig through my "K" folder of papers, to find a few that I started re-reading. I actually made amazing progress on this paper today. Whoo!

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

  • Read student responses (2 more came in over night.)

Conferences

  • Evening talk at KJC.

Miscellaneous

  • Ran errands while getting lunch.

Monday, January 27, 2014

Monday, January 27, 2014

Reading

  • The DFD people suggested this reference, so I did my best to read the Hildenbrandt paper with googletranslate.

Writing

  • I had some more thoughts on my Ratnakirti paper.
  • Translated more of the Logica Parva. It may be boring, but at least it's easy! I went from one sentence translated to very nearly all translated over the course of the day. Not bad! I've got three items that I need to look up in DMLBS in order to finish.
  • I then wrote a few more sentences in the PoV paper, but honestly, it's hard to get excited about the LP on syllogisms.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

  • Read student posts for this week. *sigh* We gave them a deadline of today, but as of 16:30, only one person had responded.

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • Sorted out travel to Nordmark scriptorium, and made plans for travel to ID scriptorium.
  • Ran errands over lunch.
  • Started making plans for Scotland in May.

Saturday, January 25, 2014

Saturday, January 25, 2014

Reading

Writing

  • While in the shower I had some ideas about things to put in my post-Procida paper, so I wrote a bit during breakfast.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Friday, January 24, 2014

Friday, January 24, 2014

Reading

  • Read A. MacC. Armstrong's review of The Metalogicon of John of Salisbury by Daniel D. McGarry in The Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 6, No. 25, Oct., 1956: 374-375

Writing

Revising

  • Spent all morning rewriting the citations in JoS for new venue -- and then changed my mind as to venue and had to convert them all back (side note: ARG!). But I sent it off again. I still think it's an interesting little paper, if emphasis on little.

Refereeing

Teaching

  • Taught.

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Thursday, January 23, 2014

Thursday, 23 January 2014

Gwen's back to daycare, I'm out at work, she didn't go to bed until 8:00pm and then woke up at 5:00 and didn't go back to sleep until 6:00 when we took her in bed with us. My throat is still sore and I'm running low on steam. I'm going to cut myself some slack today.

Reading

  • Read Zanette 2006, which isn't necessarily directly related to the stuff I want to do in my Zipf paper, but was nonetheless quite interesting.
  • Fox-Lasker 1983, which is about modern data sets and thus not very analogous.
  • And then I fell into the rabbit hole that is googlebooks.

Writing

  • Wrote a very small amount in Six Points and Zipf.

Revising

  • I guess I can put this here. Well that was quick: RP wasn't interested in the JoS paper -- it was mostly a whim that caused me to send it there -- so I worked some on reformatting the references to resubmit elsewhere.

Refereeing

Teaching

  • Read some supplementary material for Friday's class.

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Wednesday, 22 January 2014

Gwen's still home, and today it was my turn to be sick. Not much happened.

Reading

  • Read more Malink. Have finally gotten to the good stuff! But "Barbara NXN and the Four Predicables" sounds like a warped children's story.
  • Read a book review for my Zipf paper.

Writing

  • Corrected some equations in the Zipf paper.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

  • Re-read material for Friday, and also set up the two forum posts for this week's and next week's responses.

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Change of plan for the rest of the week: Pretty sure I'm going to be home with Gwen, whom I expect to show signs of hand-foot-mouth disease tomorrow or Thursday. Oh well. Maybe I'll get some reading done.

Reading

  • Read some more of Malink.

Writing

  • Nope, not going to get anything significant done today, so I worked on my MED index for awhile. That requires little thought and allows frequent interruption.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Monday, January 20, 2014

Monday, January 20, 2014

Reading

  • After lunch I was feeling the usual Monday slump and wishing I just had something to read. Alas, I think Malinck is at home, so I returned to finish reading Ruffini which I'd started last week.
  • I also went through a bunch of my JSTOR tabs, skimming articles and either deleting them or downloading them.
  • This lead me to read D. Grafflin, "The Onomastics of Medieval South China: Patterned Naming in the Lang-Yeh and T'ai-Yüan Wang", Journal of the American Oriental Society 103, no. 2 (1983): 383-398.
  • And after that, I read lots more on TEI and eXist-db.

Writing

  • Some more DMNES emails. And, I suppose I should finally announce what that is: the Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources.
  • So, there's this chapter I was asked to write months and months ago. The deadline was end of Dec. Um, yeah. Working on that now.
  • Reading Ruffini of course lead me back to working on Zipf.

Revising

Refereeing

  • Finished up my referee report for Res Philosophica and sent it off.
  • Worked on the GPMR volume some.

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • Paid for crown tourney reservation.

Friday, January 17, 2014

Friday, January 17, 2014

Reading

  • Read and commented on a draft sent to me last night.
  • Reread Burley on obligationes, and was perplexed not to find what I expected to find; then I read something more, and realized I was looking for the wrong thing.

Writing

  • Since the structuralist paper is proceeding apace, I decided to spend some time setting up things for my other proposed paper for AiML.

Revising

Refereeing

  • Began typing up my report for RP.

Teaching

  • Reread material for today's class.
  • Wrote a recommendation letter for a student.
  • Attended class.

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Thursday, January 16, 2014

Thursday, January 16, 2014

Reading

  • Olga Weijers, "The various kinds of disputation in the faculties of arts, theology, and law (c. 1200-c.1400).

Writing

  • Returned to the structuralism paper, which I think I'm going to try to submit to AiML. Given that I never outlined papers I wrote in high school or for college English classes (I don't think I ever did for my philosophy ones either), it always amazes me when I actually find benefit in hand-writing an outline for a logic paper. It's generally nothing more than the major section headers, perhaps with a few subsection headers, and almost no notes, but it really is amazingly helpful. (No kidding.)
  • Wrote a few more DMNES emails.
  • Worked on the Nahuatl data.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

  • Read student responses for tomorrow.

Conferences

  • Not really a conference, but tonight was a Jure Fixe, which swallowed up two hours.

Miscellaneous

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Reading

  • Pérez-Ilzarbe, "Disputation and Logic in the Medieval Treatises De Modo Opponendi at Respondendi", Vivarium (2011).
  • Read up on the DMLBS's specs.

Writing

  • Wrote a few more DMNES-related emails.
  • Wrote S 3.1 of the obligationes chapter, send it back to Catarina.
  • Having completed that, I allowed myself to play with Nahuatl names the rest of the day.

Revising

Refereeing

  • Some IEP work.

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Having finished off the FotFS paper late last night, I decided to give myself a free day -- no pressure to work on the other two papers that have the most pressing deadlines.

Reading

  • Read up on TEI and other DMNES related things. Sent off a few emails to people doing similarly-structured projects. Things are coming together!

Writing

  • Oops, got a reference which caused me to have to update the FotFS paper. But that's a good thing, since when I went back to the submissions page, I found I hadn't actually clicked the final "submit" button. Ooopsx2.

Revising

Refereeing

  • Read a paper for Res Philosophica, and made hand-written notes. Will try to type up the report tomorrow.

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • Ran some errands over lunch.
  • Talked with a guy from HRA for about half an hour.

Monday, January 13, 2014

Monday, January 13, 2014

Reading

  • Internet was flaky for most of the afternoon, so nothing left to do but read. Decided on Ruffini, "The Commonality of Rare Names in Byzantine Egypt" (2006), got a few pages into it and had lots of interesting ideas.

Writing

  • Revised DMNES proposal, and sent it off to Erik Decker. Time to find a tech person who can help us get started!
  • Revised FotFS on the basis of Joel's comments. Rewrote conclusion. Submitted!
  • Added some notes and thoughts and questions to Zipf.

Revising

Refereeing

  • Wrote a JoLLI referee report.

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

  • Filled out form to change bank accounts for my salary direct deposit. One wouldn't have thought this would be worth mentioning, except the form was 7 pages long and in German.
  • Daycare wanted some pictures of our Christmas to put into Gwen's scrapbook, so I chose, printed, and cut out a selection.
  • Went to the post office.
  • Ordered the remainder of the DMBLS volumes I don't yet have, using my 25% off coupon!