Desperately seeking session chairs for Pacific APA.

Hey you professional philosophers (including graduate students):

I’m on the program committee for the Pacific division of the American Philosophical Association, and we are working hard to finalize our program for the upcoming meeting in Seattle (April 4-7, 2012).

For some reason, there was a larger-than-usual pool of submissions this year, and apparently we were not sufficiently draconian in our refereeing (lesson learned!), because there are still a bunch of sessions where we’re trying to find session chairs.

The primary duty of the chair is to introduce the session’s speakers (briefly) and enforce time limits.

A caveat: you can’t chair if you are already on the program in some other capacity (since there’s a rule that one may only appear on the program once).

I am looking for a chair for a metaphysics/philosophy of science session, one for a philosophy of biology session, and one for a biomedical ethics session. If you are interested and able to chair one of these sessions, please email me ASAP! (dr – dot – freeride – at – gmail – dot – com)

If you are a philosophical type who is already planning to attend the Pacific APA this coming April, is not on the program already, and would be willing to chair some other session, email me your information (name, email address, institutional affiliation) and I’ll pass it on to our program committee chair so we can call on your services as needed.

Thanks!