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To the members of the American Society of Parasitologists, I offer my appreciation for the opportunity to serve as your president. When I was notified of my successful election as an officer, it brought to mind that famous remark by Adlai Stevenson who said, America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. So, what I initially perceived as somewhat of a risky venture, proved to be a more valuable and interesting experience than I anticipated. Let's hope that my presidential address has a similar outcome. Before preparing my presentation, I spent time reading many ASP presidential addresses, and I'll be borrowing ideas of past presidents for my talk. Although I could try to pass off my review of these addresses under the guise of research, I must make a couple of confessions, which just reflects my Catholic upbringing. First, I haven't always attended presidential addresses. For example, when John Oaks was delivering his presidential address at the Hawaii meeting in Kona, I was immersed in the warm waters of Kealakekua Bay, snorkeling on the coral reef. In any case, having recently read John's address made me appreciate the wisdom of publishing them in the Journal. And, second, I confess that I was uncertain about what direction I should take with this talk. And my library research did very little to clarify matters. Presidential addresses in our Society have run the gamut of topics. Some have been detailed scientific presentations akin to a rather long symposium talk (e.g., Norman Stoll's 1946 address entitled This Wormy World). Ruminations on the current status of our society have been the primary focus of others, and these often include a kind of call to arms, challenging the membership to meet our anticipated needs (e.g., John Oaks' aforementioned 1998 address entitled What Does the Millennium Have in Store for the American

It has been said that every young American wants to grow up to be president. But that was never true of me. The height of my ambition was merely to be president, someday, of the Western Division of the American Philosophical Association. Alas, I never made it, though I came close. Just as I was about to be promoted from VicePresident of the Western Division to its presidency, the Western Division disappeared, to be replaced by a hitherto unknown entity entitled the Central Division, and I find now that I have the distinction, such as it is, of being the first president of the Central Division. Well, so much for ambition. As Ernan McMullin pointed out two years ago, (1) this is a special occasion, at least for the speaker, for it provides a special and indeed unique opportunity -and also, I cannot forbear adding, responsibility. A Presidential Address is not -or ought not to be -just another paper, though any one may turn out to be just another presidential address. And I feel oppressed by the demand to say more than I have time -though I hope not more than I have reason -to say. This being so, I shall borrow liberally -always, of course, with the consent of the author -from material already published, and also from work in progress, not already published, and present for the most part a summary or sketch or overview, meant to be intelligible to the ear. And if you think that some essential argument is missing, content yourself with the thought that it is here, only unexpressed. (2) Yet I want to say something first about the very idea of a presidential address. In selecting a topic, a theme, a manner, I have not lacked for advice, a great deal of it useful except for the fact of their mutual incompatibility. I had no idea there were so many theories of what a presidential address should be, each with something to be said for it. Though I am not about to give a presidential address on presidential address theory, I did for a time contemplate that as a fitting accompaniment to our essentially reflective activity. I have had in mind throughout the exalted image of philosophy expressed by Gilbert Highet: Beneath every serious dispute in the world of scholarship lies a judgment of value; and when that point is reached, science and scholarship must bow their heads in silence. Only one voice may still be heard: the voice of philosophy. There speaks reason. (3) Although that is a great and moving

This is a collection of essays by moral philosopher Marcus George Singer in which the guiding theme is the concept of a morality based in reason, which is presupposed in ordinary moral contexts and provides an ideal for improving ordinary morality and correcting moral judgements.

Most of us accept as inevitable the recurrent social phenomenon known as the presidential address. Decreed by constitution, hallowed by custom, and executed with varying degrees of oratorial finesse by a countless host of officeholders, it has provided for all of us a common ground of interest in our organizational existence. One of the more interesting aspects of the presidential address is the selection of a suitable topic. Many members of this audience have passed through the protracted, minor agony of this selection process, while others who have escaped the onus of high office have wondered idly at the mechanisms which resulted in the choice of a particular subject. Most presidential addresses include in their preamble an apologia for the topic chosen, in addition to other cliches of form and content. This talk will be no exception. topic of this address is: The Presidential Address. presidential address may

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Of all the phenomena that have mystified me over the years—and there have been many—one of the most cryptic is the Presidential Address delivered at annual meetings of professional societies—and some not so professional societies. Two questions invariably come to mind on those, fortunately, rare occasions when I am confronted with the Presidential Address issue: First, why is a society president, who presumably has been busy throughout his term holding down both this nonpaying job and a paying one, subjected to the burden of composing a farewell sermon? And, second, why is a paying audience of his peers, who presumably have come to the Annual Meeting to add either to their store of knowledge or to their store of pleasure, subjected to the burden of listening to his farewell sermon? Thus far, I have failed to come up with a satisfactory answer to either query. There is a widely accepted explanation, of course, to the effect that society presidents would not be society presidents if, before fading into limbo, they were not capable of preparing a statesmanlike set of remarks suitable for consumption by fellow members of the lodge. Oh, if only it were so! But you and I—and especially I—know that it is not. No, I suspect that the actual rationale is something closer to the following: Society presidents are forced to give Presidential Addresses as partial penance for their various misdeeds while in office, and Society members are forced to hear Presidential Addresses as partial penance for being foolish enough to vote such miscreants into office.

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