Diary of Dr. Logic: July 2014

Thursday, July 31, 2014

July resolution review

Submissions

Title	Submitted	Revision requested	Resubmitted	Accepted
"Logic and Semantic Theory in the High Middle Ages"	11 June 2013			invited book chapter
"Paul of Venice on a Puzzle About Uncertainty"	24 June 2013
"Sit Verum and Counterfactual Reasoning	13 August 2013	10 March 2014	2 April 2014
"The Logic of Categorematic and Syncategorematic Infinity"	14 January 2014	17 April 2014	16 May 2014
"Obligationes" (with Catarina Dutilh Novaes)	27 March 2014	28 March 2014	08 April 2014	15 April 2014
"Reasoning About Obligations in Obligationes: A Formal Approach"	08 April 2014		2 June 2014	19 May 2014
"Code-Switched Occupational and Descriptive Phrases in 15th-Century York: A Study of Medieval Bilingualism"	10 April 2014	10 June 2014
"Review of Marko Malink, Aristotle's Modal Syllogistic"	14 April 2014			11 June 2014
"Intuitionistic Provability and the Structuralist Account of Modal Operators"	21 May 2014			03 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

Title	Publication 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Continued reading paper for Synthese.

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Assorted prep for travel next week.

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.