Kwame Anthony Appiah Explained

Region:	Western philosophy African philosophy
Era:	Contemporary philosophy
Kwame Anthony Appiah
Honorific Suffix:	FRSL
Birth Date:	1954 5, df=y
Birth Place:	London, England
Alma Mater:	Clare College, Cambridge
Thesis Title:	Conditions for conditionals
Thesis Url:	https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52897706
Thesis Year:	1981
School Tradition:	Cosmopolitanism
Main Interests:	Probabilistic semantics, political theory, moral theory, intellectual history, race and identity theory
Influences:	G. W. F. Hegel, W. E. B. Du Bois, John Rawls,^[1] Henry Louis Gates Jr., Charles Taylor, Michael Dummett
Spouse:	Henry Finder

Kwame Akroma-Ampim Kusi Anthony Appiah (; born 8 May 1954) is a British-American philosopher and writer who has written about political philosophy, ethics, the philosophy of language and mind, and African intellectual history. Appiah is Professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University, where he joined the faculty in 2014.^[2] He was previously the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University.^[3] Appiah was elected President of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in January 2022.^[4]

Personal life and education

Appiah was born in London, England, to Peggy Cripps Appiah (née Cripps), an English art historian and writer, and Joe Appiah, a lawyer, diplomat, and politician from Ashanti Region, Ghana. For two years (1970–1972) Joe Appiah was the leader of a new opposition party that was made by the country's three opposing parties. Simultaneously, he was the president of the Ghana Bar Association. Between 1977 and 1978, he was Ghana's representative at the United Nations.^[5]

Kwame Anthony Appiah was raised in Kumasi, Ghana, and educated at Bryanston School and Clare College, Cambridge, where he earned his BA (First Class) and PhD degrees in philosophy.^[6] He has three sisters: Isobel, Adwoa and Abena. As a child, he spent a good deal of time in England, staying with his grandmother Dame Isobel Cripps, widow of the English statesman Sir Stafford Cripps.

Appiah's mother's family has a long political tradition: Sir Stafford was a nephew of Beatrice Webb and was Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer (1947–1950) under Clement Attlee; his father, Charles Cripps, was Labour Leader of the House of Lords (1929–31) as Lord Parmoor in Ramsay MacDonald's government; Parmoor had been a Conservative MP before defecting to Labour.

Through his grandmother Isobel Cripps, Appiah is a descendant of John Winthrop and the New England Winthrop family of Boston Brahmins as one of his ancestors, Robert Winthrop, was a Loyalist during the American Revolutionary War and migrated to England, becoming a distinguished Vice Admiral in the Royal Navy.^{[7] [8]} Through Isobel, he is also descended from the British pharmacist James Crossley Eno.

Through Professor Appiah's father, a Nana of the Ashanti people, he is a direct descendant of Osei Tutu, the warrior emperor of pre-colonial Ghana, whose reigning successor, the Asantehene, is a distant relative of the Appiah family. Also among his African ancestors is the Ashanti nobleman Nana Akroma-Ampim I of Nyaduom, a warrior whose name the Professor now bears.

He lives with his husband, Henry Finder, an editorial director of The New Yorker,^[9] in an apartment in Manhattan, and a home in Pennington, New Jersey with a small sheep farm.^[10] Appiah has written about what it was like growing up gay in Ghana.^[11]

Appiah became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1997.^{[12] [13]} His nephew is the actor Adetomiwa Edun.^[14]

Career

Appiah taught philosophy and African-American studies at the University of Ghana, Cornell, Yale, Harvard, and Princeton Universities from 1981 to 1988. Until 2014, he was the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton (with a cross-appointment at the University Center for Human Values) and also was the Bacon-Kilkenny Professor of Law at Fordham University in the fall of 2008. Appiah also served on the board of PEN American Center and was on a panel of judges for the PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award.^[15] He has lectured at many other institutions in the US, Germany, Ghana and South Africa, and Paris. Until the fall of 2009, he served as a trustee of Ashesi University College in Accra, Ghana. Since 2014, he has been a professor of philosophy and law at NYU.

His Cambridge dissertation explored the foundations of probabilistic semantics. In 1992, Appiah published In My Father's House, which won the Herskovitz Prize for African Studies in English. Among his later books are Colour Conscious (with Amy Gutmann), The Ethics of Identity (2005), and Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (2006). He has been a close collaborator with Henry Louis Gates Jr., with whom he edited Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African-American Experience. Appiah was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1995.^[16]

In 2008, Appiah published Experiments in Ethics, in which he reviews the relevance of empirical research to ethical theory. In the same year, he was recognised for his contributions to racial, ethnic, and religious relations when Brandeis University awarded him the first Joseph B. and Toby Gittler Prize.^[17]

As well as his academic work, Appiah has also published several works of fiction. His first novel, Avenging Angel, set at the University of Cambridge, involved a murder among the Cambridge Apostles; Sir Patrick Scott is the detective in the novel. Appiah's second and third novels are Nobody Likes Letitia and Another Death in Venice.

Appiah has been nominated for, or received, several honours. He was the 2009 finalist in the arts and humanities for the Eugene R. Gannon Award for the Continued Pursuit of Human Advancement.^[18] In 2010, he was named by Foreign Policy magazine on its list of top global thinkers.^[19] On 13 February 2012, Appiah was awarded the National Humanities Medal at a ceremony at the White House.^[20]

Appiah currently chairs the jury for the Berggruen Prize, and serves on the Berggruen Institute's Philosophy & Culture Center's Academic Board.^[21] He was elected as President of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in January 2022.

Ideas

Appiah argues that the formative denotation of culture is preceded by the efficacy of intellectual interchange. From this position he views organisations such as UNICEF and Oxfam in two lights: on the one hand he seems to appreciate the immediate action these organisations provide while on the other he points out their long-term futility. His focus is, instead, on the long-term political and economic development of nations according to the Western capitalist/democratic model, an approach that relies on continued growth in the "marketplace" that is the capital-driven modern world.

However, when capitalism is introduced and it does not "take off" as in the Western world, the livelihood of the peoples involved is at stake. Thus, the ethical questions involved are certainly complex, yet the general impression in Appiah's "Kindness to Strangers" is one which implies that it is not up to "us" to save the poor and starving, but up to their own governments. Nation-states must assume responsibility for their citizens, and a cosmopolitan's role is to appeal to "our own" government to ensure that these nation-states respect, provide for, and protect their citizens.

If they will not, "we" are obliged to change their minds; if they cannot, "we" are obliged to provide assistance, but only our "fair share," that is, not at the expense of our own comfort, or the comfort of those "nearest and dearest" to us.^[22]

Appiah's early philosophical work dealt with probabilistic semantics and theories of meaning, but his more recent books have tackled philosophical problems of race and racism, identity, and moral theory. His current work tackles three major areas: 1. the philosophical foundations of liberalism; 2. the questioning of methods in arriving at knowledge about values; and 3. the connections between theory and practice in moral life, all of which concepts can also be found in his book Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers.

On postmodern culture, Appiah writes, "Postmodern culture is the culture in which all postmodernisms operate, sometimes in synergy, sometimes in competition; and because contemporary culture is, in a certain sense to which I shall return, transnational, postmodern culture is globalthough that emphatically does not mean that it is the culture of every person in the world."^[23]

Cosmopolitanism

Appiah has been influenced by the cosmopolitanist philosophical tradition, which stretches from German thinkers such as G. W. F. Hegel to African American thinkers like W. E. B. Du Bois, among others. In his article "Education for Global Citizenship", Appiah outlines his conception of cosmopolitanism. He therein defines cosmopolitanism as "universality plus difference". Building from this definition, he asserts that the first takes precedence over the latter, that is: different cultures are respected "not because cultures matter in themselves, but because people matter, and culture matters to people." But Appiah first defined it as its problems but ultimately determines that practising a citizenship of the world and conversation is not only helpful in a post-9/11 world. Therefore, according to Appiah's take on this ideology, cultural differences are to be respected in so far as they are not harmful to people and in no way conflict with our universal concern for every human's life and well-being.^[24]

In his book Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (2006),^[25] Appiah introduces two ideas that "intertwine in the notion of cosmopolitanism" (Emerging, 69). The first is the idea that we have obligations to others that are bigger than just sharing citizenship. The second idea is that we should never take for granted the value of life and become informed of the practices and beliefs of others. Kwame Appiah frequents university campuses to speak to students. One request he makes is, "See one movie with subtitles a month."^[26]

In Lies that Bind (2018), Appiah attempts to deconstruct identities of creed, colour, country, and class.^[27]

Criticism of Afrocentric world view

Appiah has been a critic of contemporary theories of Afrocentrism. In his 1997 essay "Europe Upside Down: Fallacies of the New Afrocentrism", he argues that current Afrocentricism is striking for "how thoroughly at home it is in the frameworks of nineteenth century European thought", particularly as a mirror image to Eurocentric constructions of race and a preoccupation with the ancient world. Appiah also finds an irony in the conception that if the source of the West lies in ancient Egypt via Greece, then "its legacy of ethnocentrism is presumably one of our moral liabilities."^[28]

In popular culture

• In 2007, Appiah was a contributing scholar in the PBS-broadcast documentary Prince Among Slaves produced by Unity Productions Foundation.^[29]
• In 2007, he also appeared in the TV documentary series as an on-screen contributor.^[30]
• Appiah appeared alongside a number of contemporary philosophers in Astra Taylor's 2008 film Examined Life, discussing his views on cosmopolitanism.
• In 2009, he was an on-screen contributor to the movie Herskovits: At the Heart of Blackness.^[31]
• In 2015, he became one of three contributors to the New York Times Magazine column "The Ethicist",^[32] before assuming sole authorship of the column later that year.^[33]
• He delivered the BBC's Reith Lectures in late 2016 on the theme of Mistaken Identities.^[34]
• In late 2016, he contended that Western civilization did not exist, and argued that many ostensibly unique Western attributes and values were instead shared among many "non-western" cultures and/or eras.^[35]
• In 2018, Appiah appeared in the episode "Can We Live Forever?" of the documentary series Explained.^[36]

Awards and honours

• Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for In My Father's House, April 1993^[37]
• Honorable Mention, James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association for In My Father's House, December 1993^[38]
• 1993 Herskovits Award of the African Studies Association "for the best work published in English on Africa", for In My Father's House, December 1993^[39]
• Annual Book Award, 1996, North American Society for Social Philosophy, "for the book making the most significant contribution to social philosophy" for Color Conscious, May 1997
• Ralph J. Bunche Award, American Political Science Association, "for the best scholarly work in political science which explores the phenomenon of ethnic and cultural pluralism" for Color Conscious, July 1997
• Outstanding Book on the subject of human rights in North America, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America, for Color Conscious, 10 December 1997
• Elected member of the American Philosophical Society^[40]
• Honorable Mention, Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights for The Ethics of Identity, 9 December 2005
• Editors' Choice New York Times Book Review, The Ethics of Identity, 26 June 2005.
• Amazon.com Best Books of 2005, Top 10 Editors' Picks: Nonfiction, The Ethics of Identity, December 2005
• Arthur Ross Book Award of the Council on Foreign Relations, Cosmopolitanism, May 2007
• Finalist for Estoril Global Ethics Book Prize, for Cosmopolitanism (2009)
• A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2010 for The Honor Code
• One of New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books of 2010 for The Honor Code^[41]
• New Jersey Council for the Humanities Book Award 2011 for The Honor Code
• Global Thought Leaders Index 2015, No. 95, The World Post
• In August 2016, he was enstooled as the Nkosuahene of Nyaduom, a Ghanaian chief of the Ashanti people, in Nyaduom - his family's ancestral chiefdom in Ghana.
• In 2017 he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature^{[42] [43]}
• In June 2017 he was named by the Carnegie Corporation of New York as one of its 2017 "Great Immigrants"^{[44] [45]}
• In December 2021, he received the prestigious Gold Medal from The National Institute of Social Sciences.^[46]
• In June 2022, Professor Appiah received an Honorary Degree from Cambridge University. This is a degree that is bestowed upon people who have made outstanding achievements in their respective fields.^[47]
• 2024 John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity, awarded by the Library of Congress. It recognizes "work in disciplines not covered by the Nobel Prizes".^[48]

Bibliography

Books

• Book: Assertion and Conditionals . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge Cambridgeshire New York . 1985 . Cambridge Studies in Philosophy Series . 9780521304115 .
• Book: For Truth in Semantics . B. Blackwell . Oxford, UK; New York, NY, USA . 1986 . Philosophical Theory Series . 9780631145967 .
• Book: Necessary Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy . Prentice-Hall . Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey . 1989 . 9780136113287 .
• Book: In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture . Methuen / Oxford University Press . London / New York . 1992 . 9780195068511 .
• With Book: Gutmann, Amy . Amy Gutmann . Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race . Princeton University Press . Princeton, New Jersey . 1996 . 9780691026619 .
• With Book: Appiah . Peggy . Agyeman-Duah . Ivor . Bu me b?: Proverbs of the Akans . Ayebia Clarke . Oxfordshire, UK . 2nd . 2007 . 2002 . 9780955507922 .
• Book: Kosmopolitischer Patriotismus . Suhrkamp . Frankfurt am Main . 2001 . de . 9783518122303 .
• With Book: Gates Jr. . Henry Louis . Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience: the concise desk reference . Running Press . Philadelphia . 2003 . 9780762416424 .
• Book: Thinking It Through: An Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy . registration. . Oxford New York . 2003 . 9780195134582 .
• Book: The Ethics of Identity . . Princeton, New Jersey . 2005 . 9780691130286 . 11 January 2006 . https://web.archive.org/web/20061018074131/http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/titles/7806.html . 18 October 2006 . dead .

Translated as: Book: La Ética de la identidad . Katz Editores . Buenos Aires, Madrid . 2007 . es . 9788493543242 .

• Book: Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers . registration. W.W. Norton & Co . New York . 2006 . 9780141027814 .

Translated as: Book: Cosmopolitismo: la ética en un mundo de extraños . Katz Editores . Buenos Aires, Madrid . 2007 . es . 9788496859081 .

• Book: The Politics of Culture, the Politics of Identity . . Toronto, Canada . 2008 . 9780888544643 .
• Book: Experiments in Ethics . registration. Harvard University Press . Cambridge, Massachusetts . 2008 . 9780674034570 .

Translated as: Book: Experimentos de ética . Katz Editores . Buenos Aires, Madrid . 2010 . es . 9788492946112 .

• Book: Mi cosmopolitismo . Katz Editores . Buenos Aires, Madrid . 2008 . es . 9788496859371 . (En coedición con el Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona.)
• Book: The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen . . New York . 2010 . 9780393071627 .
• Book: Lines of Descent: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity . . Cambridge, Massachusetts . 2014 . 9780674419346 .
• Book: Kapai . Puja . A Decent Respect: Honor in the Life of People and of Nations, Hochelaga Lectures 2015 . Faculty of Law: University of Hong Kong . 2015 . Original lecture.
• Book: As If: Idealization and Ideals . Based on The 2013 Paul Carus Lectures. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2017.
• The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity—Creed, Country, Color, Class, Culture. London: Profile Books, 2018 and New York: Liveright Publishing, Profile Books, 2018

Novels

• Book: Avenging Angel . . New York . 1991 . 9780312058173 .
• Book: Nobody Likes Letitia . Constable . London . 1994 . 9780094733008 .
• Book: Another Death in Venice . Constable . London . 1995 . 9780094744301 .

Book chapters

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Journal articles

• Appiah . Kwame Anthony . Structuralist criticism and African fiction: an analytic critique . Black American Literature Forum . 15 . 4 . 165–174 . 10.2307/2904328 . 2904328 . Winter 1981 . 149470070 .
• Appiah . Kwame Anthony . 1. An argument against anti-realist semantics . . 93 . 372 . 559–565 . 10.1093/mind/XCIII.372.559 . 2254262 . October 1984 .
• Appiah . Kwame Anthony . 1 . Generalising the probabilistic semantics of conditionals . . 13 . 4 . 351–372 . 10.1007/BF00247710 . 30226312 . November 1984 . 21407826 .
• Appiah . Kwame Anthony . 1. Verificationism and the manifestations of meaning . Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume . 59 . 1 . 17–31 . 10.1093/aristoteliansupp/59.1.17 . 1 July 1985 .
• Appiah . Kwame Anthony . 1. The uncompleted argument: Du Bois and the illusion of race . Critical Inquiry . 12 . 1 . 21–37 . 10.1086/448319 . 1343460 . Autumn 1985 . 162202031 .
• Appiah . Kwame Anthony . 1. The importance of triviality . . 95 . 2 . 209–231 . 10.2307/2185590 . 2185590 . April 1986 .
• Appiah . Kwame Anthony . 1. Review: Deconstruction and the philosophy of language Reviewed Work: The Deconstructive Turn: Essays in the Rhetoric of Philosophy by Christopher Norris . . 16 . 1 . 48–64 . 10.2307/464650 . 464650 . Spring 1986 .
• Appiah . Kwame Anthony . 1. Review: Are we ethnic? The theory and practice of American pluralism. Reviewed work: Beyond Ethnicity: Consent and Descent in American Culture by Werner Sollors . . 20 . 1–2 . 209–224 . 10.2307/2904561 . 2904561 . Spring–Summer 1986 .
• Appiah . Kwame Anthony . 1. Racism and moral pollution . . 18 . 2–3 . 185–202 . Winter–Spring 1987 . 10.1111/(ISSN)1467-9191 .
• Appiah . Kwame Anthony . 1. Out of Africa: topologies of nativism . . 2 . 1 . 153–178 . Spring 1988 .
• Appiah . Kwame Anthony . 1. Alexander Crummell and the invention of Africa . . 31 . 3 . 385–406 . Autumn 1990 . 25090195 . Publisher's website.
• Appiah . Kwame Anthony . 1. But would that still be me?" Notes on gender, "race," ethnicity, as sources of "identity . The Journal of Philosophy . 87 . 10 . 493–499 . 10.5840/jphil1990871026 . 2026866 . October 1990 .
• Appiah . Kwame Anthony . 1. African-American Philosophy? . . 24 . 1–3 . 1–24 . Spring 1993 . 10.1111/(ISSN)1467-9191 .
• Appiah . K. Anthony . 1. Race, pluralism, and Afrocentricity . . 19 . 19 . 116–118 . 10.2307/2998938 . 2998938 . Spring 1998 .
• Appiah . Kwame Anthony . 1. Comprendre les réparations: une réflexion préliminaire . Understanding reparation: a preliminary reflection . . 44 . 173–174 . 25–40 . 4393367 . 2004 . fr, en . 10.4000/etudesafricaines.4518 . free .
• Appiah . Kwame Anthony . 1. Chapter 6: Education for global citizenship . Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education . 107 . 1 . 83–99 . 10.1111/j.1744-7984.2008.00133.x . April 2008 .
• News: Appiah . Kwame Anthony . 1. Convincing other cultures to change . . 21 September 2010 . bot: unknown . https://web.archive.org/web/20131212131130/http://bigthink.com/videos/convincing-other-cultures-to-change . 12 December 2013 .
• Appiah, Kwame Anthony . Lionel Barber . Lionel Barber . amp . . Winter 2019 . . Carnegie Conversation . Carnegie Reporter . 11 . 1 . 8–15 . 2020-10-25-->.
• —"The Key to All Mythologies" (review of Emmanuelle Loyer, Lévi-Strauss: A Biography, translated from the French by Ninon Vinsonneau and Jonathan Magidoff, Polity, 2019, 744 pp.; and Maurice Godelier, Claude Lévi-Strauss: A Critical Study of His Thought, translated from the French by Nora Scott, Verso, 2019, 540 pp.), The New York Review of Books, vol. LXVII, no. 2 (13 February 2020), pp. 18–20. Appiah concludes his review (p. 20): "Lévi-Strauss... was... an inspired interpreter, a brilliant reader.... When the landmarks of science succeed in advancing their subject, they need no longer be consulted: physicists don't study Newton; chemists don't pore over Lavoisier.... If some part of Lévi-Strauss's scholarly oeuvre survives, it will be because his scientific aspirations have not."

See also

• Black British nobility, Appiah's class in Britain
• African philosophy
• Africana philosophy

Further reading

• Levy . Neil . Special issue: symposium on Anthony Appiah, experiments in ethics . Neuroethics . 3 . 3 . November 2010 .
• Book: Gambone, Philip . Philip Gambone . Travels in a Gay Nation: Portraits of LGBTQ Americans . University of Wisconsin Press . Madison, Wisconsin . 2010 . 9780299236847 .
• Book: Lee, Christopher J. . Kwame Anthony Appiah . Routledge . London . 2021 . 9780367229092 .

External links

• • Appiah's Princeton home page
• Appiah's Princeton professional page
• An in-depth autobiographical interview with Appiah

Notes and References

1. Appiah, Kwame Anthony (9 November 2010), "Religious Faith and John Rawls", The New York Review of Books.
2. News: Schuessler . Jennifer . Noted Philosopher Moves to N.Y.U. — and Beyond . . 26 November 2013 . 15 April 2014 . 29 January 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140129032119/http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/26/noted-philosopher-moves-to-n-y-u-and-beyond/ . live . .Web site: NYU Law welcomes renowned philosopher Kwame Appiah to the faculty . law.nyu.edu . School of Law, NYU . 26 November 2013 . 15 April 2014 . 15 January 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190115024656/http://www.law.nyu.edu/news/%20NYU-Law-welcomes-renowned-legal-philosopher-Kwame-Appiah-to-the-faculty . live .
3. Web site: LAPA Faculty Associate: Kwame Anthony Appiah . https://web.archive.org/web/20130603010530/http://lapa.princeton.edu/peopledetail.php?ID=350 . 3 June 2013 . lapa.princeton.edu . .
4. Web site: Appiah Named Next President of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Justin. Weinberg. 28 January 2022. 1 February 2022. 19 March 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230319141802/https://dailynous.com/2022/01/28/appiah-named-next-president-of-the-american-academy-of-arts-and-letters/. live.
5. News: Pace . Eric . Joe Appiah Is Dead; Ghanaian Politician And Ex-Envoy, 71 . The New York Times . 12 July 1990 . 28 March 2012 . 13 January 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230113165425/https://www.nytimes.com/1990/07/12/obituaries/joe-appiah-is-dead-ghanaian-politician-and-ex-envoy-71.html . live .
6. PhD . Appiah . Kwame Akroma-Ampim Kusi Anthony . 1981 . Conditions for conditionals . . 52897706 .
7. Book: Howard . Joseph Jackson . Crisp . Frederick Arthur . Visitation of England and Wales, Volume VII . 150–151 . Privately printed . England . 1899 . 786249679 . Online.
8. Book: Stark, James Henry . The loyalists of Massachusetts and the other side of the American Revolution . 426–429 . J.H. Stark . Boston, Massachusetts . 1910 . 1655711 .
9. News: Postel . Danny . Is Race Real? How Does Identity Matter? . . 5 April 2002 . 6 March 2016 . 12 March 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160312143356/http://chronicle.com/article/Is-Race-Real-How-Does/35485 . live .
10. Web site: Appiah . Kwame Anthony . Biography . appiah.net . Kwame Anthony Appiah . 15 February 2011 . Professor Appiah has homes in New York city and near Pennington, in New Jersey, which he shares with his partner, Henry Finder, Editorial Director of the New Yorker magazine. (In Pennington, they have a small sheep farm.) . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110203053420/http://appiah.net/biography/ . 3 February 2011 .
11. Web site: Ghanaians like sex too much to be homophobic. Appiah. Kwame Anthony. bigthink.com. Big Think. 20 September 2010. 9 September 2013. 11 September 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130911152737/http://bigthink.com/videos/ghanaians-like-sex-too-much-to-be-homophobic. live.
12. Web site: Biography, "Kwame Anthony Appiah", Stanford Presidential Lectures in the Humanities and Arts . prelectur.stanford.edu . . 1 January 2014 . 8 December 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191208190334/http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/appiah/ . live .
13. Web site: Kwame Anthony Appiah . 28 December 2021 . 1 August 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230801025338/https://appiah.net/ . live .
14. Web site: My Nephew | Kwame Anthony Appiah . 20 October 2018 . 15 September 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230915072858/http://appiah.net/2009/04/30/my-nephew/ . live .
15. Web site: Appiah . Kwame Anthony . 2009 Inaugural Remarks | PEN World voices Festival . worldvoices.pen.org . . 17 March 2009 . 1 January 2014 . 19 May 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160519232839/http://worldvoices.pen.org/nonfiction-essay/kwame-anthony-appiah-2009-inaugural-remarks . dead .
16. Web site: Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter A . amacad.org . American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) . 19 April 2011 . 4 March 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304055929/https://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterA.pdf . live .
17. Web site: Joseph B. and Toby Gittler Prize. Brandeis University. 2008. 8 November 2016. 30 September 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220930171328/https://www.brandeis.edu/gittlerprize/recipients/past/appiah.html. live.
18. Web site: Gannon Award . https://archive.today/20120724071214/http://www.gannonaward.org/The_Gannon_Award/The_Award.html . 24 July 2012 . gannonaward.org . The Gannon Award . 14 June 2010 .
19. Web site: Rothkopf . David . The FT top 100 global thinkers . https://web.archive.org/web/20141119224246/http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/11/29/the_fp_top_100_global_thinkers . 19 November 2014 . Foreign Policy Magazine . 29 November 2010 . 21 January 2014 . dead .
20. News: Kellogg . Carolyn . Jacket copy: National medal of arts and national humanities medals announced . . 10 February 2012 . 13 February 2012 . 7 April 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220407151421/https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2012/02/national-medals-of-arts-humanities-announced.html . live .
21. Simmons, Ann M. (6 October 2017), Canadian Charles Margrave Taylor wins inaugural Berggruen Prize for Philosophy, Los Angeles Times: "Kwame Anthony Appiah, a New York University professor and philosopher who chaired this year's Berggruen Prize jury, praised the 'breadth and depth' of Taylor's intellectual contributions."
22. Book: Appiah, Anthony Kwame . "Moral disagreement" and "Kindness to strangers" . Appiah . Anthony Kwame . Cosmopolitanism: ethics in a world of strangers . registration . 45–68 and 155–174 . W.W. Norton & Co . New York . 2006 . 9780141027814 .
23. Is the Post- in Postmodernism the Post- in Postcolonial? . Critical Inquiry . Winter 2009 . Kwame Anthony . Appiah . 17 . 2 . 336–357 . 10.1086/448586 . 162294784 .
24. Appiah . Kwame Anthony . Chapter 6: Education for global citizenship . Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education . 107 . 1 . 83–99 . 10.1111/j.1744-7984.2008.00133.x . April 2008 .
25. Appiah, Kwame (2006). Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers.
26. Web site: Aguila . Sissi . Kwame Appiah discusses 'World Citizenship' at FIU . FIU News . . 23 April 2010 . 21 January 2014 . 19 February 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140219050721/http://news.fiu.edu/2010/04/kwame-appiah-discusses-%e2%80%98world-citizenship%e2%80%99-at-fiu/13443 . dead .
27. Hirsch, Afua. "The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity by Kwame Anthony Appiah" . Sun 23 Sep 2018. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
28. Kwame Anthony Appiah, "Europe Upside Down: Fallacies of the New Afrocentrism" in Perspectives on Africa, ed. Richard Roy Grinker and Christopher B. Steiner (London: Blackwell Publishers, 1997), pp. 728–731.
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