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

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

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

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

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

• Wrote another blog post at From the Editors.

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, 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, 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