Kwame Anthony Appiah
British American philosopher and writer (born 1954) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Kwame Akroma-Ampim Kusi Anthony Appiah FRSL (/ˈæpiɑː/ AP-ee-ah; 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 was the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University,[1] before moving to New York University (NYU) in 2014.[2] He holds an appointment at the NYU Department of Philosophy and NYU's School of Law.[3] Appiah was elected President of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in January 2022.[4]
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Born | (1954-05-08) 8 May 1954 (age 70) London, England |
Alma mater | Clare College, Cambridge |
Spouse | Henry Finder |
Era | Contemporary philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy African philosophy |
School | Cosmopolitanism |
Thesis | Conditions for conditionals (1981) |
Main interests | Probabilistic semantics, political theory, moral theory, intellectual history, race and identity theory |
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