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	The Chronicle: 4/5/2002: As He Leaves Harvard for Princeton, K. Anthony Appiah's Scholarship Takes a New Direction
		Appiah, a professor of philosophy and African-American studies at Harvard University who will be moving to Princeton in the fall, is perhaps best known, at least to those outside his scholarly fields, for his numerous collaborations with Mr.
		Appiah of "Anglo-Saxon imperialism" and "ideological recolonization." Molefi Kete Asante, a professor of African studies at Temple University, accused Mr.
		Appiah, on the basis of his appearance, to be Indian, and assuming his question to be an attempt to pass as non-Indian.
	chronicle.com /free/v48/i30/30a01001.htm (2658 words)

	Hoover Institution - Policy Review - Rooted Cosmopolitans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Appiah, of course, realizes that conversations can be frustrating as often as they can be enlightening (and recent experiments have shown that conversations can polarize those with differing views rather than forge consensuses) but he sees them as a path to cosmopolitanism.
		Appiah’s cosmopolitans may maintain strong beliefs and have firm conceptions of right and wrong, but “cosmopolitans suppose that all cultures have enough overlap in their vocabulary of values to begin a conversation.
		Appiah nicely argues that cosmopolitanism cannot remain satisfied by mere conversation because “[t]oleration requires a concept of the intolerable.” He says that cosmopolitans must intervene when some of their core commitments are violated, citing genocide as the uncontroversial case.
	www.hoover.org /publications/policyreview/3402231.html (3191 words)

	Cosmopolitanism... Kwame Appiah
		It is not surprising, therefore, that Appiah espoused earlier the hope, in the end, “to have made it harder to think of the world as divided between the West and the Rest; between locals and moderns; between the bloodless ethics of profit and the bloody ethic of identity; between “us” and “them”.
		Further on this point, Appiah notes comparatively, a parallel similar to the phenomenon among Christians: it is fundamentalism, which is “perfectly consistent with the political and social integration as a minority within a framework of a democratic republic that allows freedom of religion”.
		Appiah’s style of writing is not dense nor does he use pedantic language to obfuscate slippery points of logic.
	www.kwenu.com /bookreview/obaze/kwame_appiah.htm (2581 words)

	Presidential Lectures: Kwame Anthony Appiah
		Appiah’s critique of these large collective identities is not designed to deny their legitimacy but to expose their threat to freedom and community.
		Appiah is also a person of multiple nationalities—Ghana and the United Kingdom by birth, a citizen of the United States by choice—as well, a gay man, who shares a Chelsea loft with his long-time companion, an editor at the New Yorker.
		Appiah ends the essay with a startling transvaluation of the “double standard,” which Western thinkers routinely condemn as morally unacceptable and conceptually contradictory.
	prelectur.stanford.edu /lecturers/appiah (1843 words)

	kwame anthony appiah and cosmopolitanism and art treasures and repatriation
		Before spelling out my critique, however, here are a few words on Appiah's approach to the issue of possession/ownership of cultural objects located far from the region of their creation.
		Appiah, to his credit, did try to ground his understanding of building "cosmopolitan cultures" in every contemporary country/culture by a rich understanding of the idea of cosmopolitanism.
		Appiah seemed to know nothing of who these people were or what they did.
	www.drbilllong.com /CurrentEventsIX/Appiah.html (923 words)

	Kwame Anthony Appiah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kwame Anthony Appiah (1954-) is a philosopher whose interests include political and moral theory, the philosophy of language and mind, and African intellectual history.
		Appiah also served on the board of PEN American Center, and was on a panel of judges for the PEN/Newman's Own Award.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anthony_Appiah (1104 words)

	Appiah, Anthony
		Kwame Anthony Appiah earned his Ph.D. in philosophy at Oxford University and is currently both a Professor of Afro-American Studies and Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University.
		Appiah began his university studies at Cambridge, first as a medical student, then taking a degree in philosophy.
		And although Appiah has published many important works of his own (numerous philosophical tomes, two novels and the acclaimed In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture), the texts for which he is best known among non-academics — The Dictionary of Global Culture and the Africana encyclopedia — are both collaborations with Gates.
	www.angelfire.com /zine2/jungchiu/Appiah.html (2910 words)

	Ethics of Identity
		Anthony Appiah and Amy Gutmann, two 'passionate democrats,' lower the decibel level and raise by several units of decency and infinite degrees of intelligence the caliber of public discourse on race.
		Appiah continues to explain that an identity can be criticized if it is being used for injustice or praised if it is being used for justice.
		Appiah does not have any advice as to what identities one should adopt but offers a bit of advice as to what sorts of identities should not be adopted.
	www.philosophytalk.org /pastShows/EthicsofIdentity.htm (676 words)

	Amazon.com: The Ethics of Identity: Books: Kwame Anthony Appiah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In this book, Appiah takes a hard look at the ways we shape ourselves as distinct individuals, and he continues to defend the right of the individual to forge a plan of life over and against her community's tug of conformity - but, he insists, not with indifference to the community's influences and interests.
		Appiah's call for the liberal state to engage in soul-making is likely to be one of the controversial proposals in the book (in fact, I already know it is in certain academic circles).
		For Appiah argues that a state, any state, has an interest in the cultivation of such virtues in its citizens as are harmonious with the values and moral commitments upon which it rests.
	www.amazon.com /Ethics-Identity-Kwame-Anthony-Appiah/dp/0691120366 (2179 words)

	Princeton scholar Appiah explores moral obligation and the ethics of identity
		In an hour-long, densely woven argument, Appiah drew on such diverse sources as philosopher Ronald Dworkin, Russian cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, sociologist Crag Calhoun, Charles Dickens and his own father, an independence leader in Ghana, to explore the ethics of identity and whether identities might impose obligations on individuals.
		Appiah argued for what he called "ethical partiality," a mixed theory of value that has "space for obligations that are moral and universal and for obligations that are ethical and relative to our identities."
		Appiah rejected the notion that individuals are bound to impartiality by an idea of universal moral equality.
	news-service.stanford.edu /news/2004/november3/appiah-1103.html (887 words)

	Amazon.com: Color Conscious: Books: Kwame Anthony Appiah,Amy Gutmann,David B. Wilkins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Appiah, a Harvard philosophy professor, and Gutmann, dean of the faculty at Princeton, add an academic gloss to two issues already much debated today: the legitimacy of the notion of "race" and whether color-blind policies can further justice in America.
		Appiah's sometimes ponderous philosophical excursion reminds us that the notion of race fails as a biological construct (despite contemporary efforts like The Bell Curve to prove otherwise), but he does acknowledge that race shapes social identity in America.
		Appiah and Gutmann (AandG) want to arrive at the conclusion that America's fls should be given plenty of quotas, preferences or at least pots of money; but they do not actually accept that fls are a racial group having any special needs.
	www.amazon.com /Color-Conscious-Kwame-Anthony-Appiah/dp/0691059098 (2464 words)

	PEN American Center - Kwame Anthony Appiah
		Kwame Anthony Appiah was born in London in 1954 and moved to Ghana as an infant.
		In 1992, Appiah published In My Father’s House, which was awarded the Herskovitz Prize for African Studies in English.
		Appiah has taught philosophy and African-American studies at Cambridge, Duke, Cornell, Yale, Harvard, and Princeton Universities.
	pen.org /page.php/prmID/1160 (95 words)

	Princeton - News - University appoints Anthony Appiah, James Haxby as senior faculty members
		They are: Kwame Anthony Appiah, named as the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values; and James Van Loan Haxby, appointed as professor of psychology.
		Appiah, currently the Charles H. Carswell Professor of Afro-American Studies and of Philosophy at Harvard University, specializes in moral and political philosophy, African and African-American studies, literary theory and criticism, and issues of personal and political identity, multiculturalism and nationalism.
		Appiah also is co-editor, with Harvard University Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., of the 3,000-article "Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African-American Experience" and the Encarta Africana CD-Rom.
	www.princeton.edu /pr/news/02/q1/0126-appointmts.htm (1017 words)

	Cultural Complexity by Arlene Goldbard - Art Changes / In Motion Magazine
		Appiah took his several degrees at Cambridge, then came to the U.S. to accept an appointment at Yale.
		Appiah deploys a full set of old-chestnut clubs to beat the idea of cultural protection into the ground.
		Appiah's main point is made in a single sentence: "Shouldn't the choice be theirs?" My answer is yes.
	www.inmotionmagazine.com /ac06/a_goldbard5.html (1487 words)

	Kwame Anthony Appiah :: Fairleigh Dickinson University
		Kwame Anthony Appiah, British-born American philosopher, novelist, and scholar of African and of African American studies, is best known for his contribution to political philosophy, moral psychology, and the philosophy of culture.
		Appiah has been called âour postmodern Socrates.â Born in London, his mother came from the English landed gentry and his father was a Ghanaian statesman.
		Appiahâs current interests range over African and African-American intellectual history and literary studies, ethics and philosophy of mind and language.
	view.fdu.edu /default.aspx?id=3866 (308 words)

	Kwame Anthony Appiah
		Kwame Appiah was educated at the University Primary School at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi; at Ullenwood Manor, in Gloucestershire, and Port Regis and Bryanston Schools, in Dorset; and, finally, at Cambridge University in England
		Professor Appiah joined the Princeton faculty in 2002 as Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values.
		In 2003, he coauthored Bu Me Bé: Proverbs of the Akan (of which his mother, the writer Peggy Appiah, was the major author), an annotated edition of 7,500 proverbs in Twi, the language of Asante.
	www.appiah.net (363 words)

	Flexner Lectures - K. Anthony Appiah
		Renowned philosopher and Africana-studies scholar K. Anthony Appiah, one of the world's leading theorists of identity, race and culture, will deliver the 2005 Mary Flexner Lectures at Bryn Mawr College on four Thursdays in October and November.
		Appiah, Princeton University 's Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and director of Princeton's University Center for Human Values, is the son of an English mother and a Ghanaian father.
		Trained as a philosopher of language and logic, Appiah has substantial publications in the relatively arcane field of probabilistic semantics, but he is better known for his work on questions of race, multiculturalism and identity.
	www.brynmawr.edu /flexner/appiah.shtml (445 words)

	Color Conscious -- Kwame Anthony Appiah David B. Wilkins
		In Color Conscious, K. Anthony Appiah and Amy Gutmann, two eminent moral and political philosophers, seek to clear the ground for a discussion of the place of race in politics and in our moral lives.
		Appiah begins by establishing the problematic nature of the idea of race.
		Appiah argues that while people of color may still need to gather together, in the face of racism, under the banner of race, they need also to balance carefully the calls of race against the many other dimensions of individual identity; and he suggests, finally, what this might mean for our political life.
	www.frontlist.com /detail/0691026610 (324 words)

	K. Anthony Appiah on What's Special About Religious Disputes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Part of the reason, Appiah argues, is the centrality of religious identities to ethical identity.
		Anthony Appiah is the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy at the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University.
		Appiah's paper is part of a book project on "The New Religious Pluralism, Globalization, and World Politics," forthcoming with Oxford University Press.
	berkleycenter.georgetown.edu /10647.html (360 words)

	Appiah, K.A.: The Ethics of Identity.
		Appiah has some very wise and original things to say about the inevitability of a liberal state affecting the inner life of its citizens.
		Appiah concentrates on a double question: how we acquire an individual identity by acquiring a social identity, and how we find--and make--an identity that is not a straitjacket.
		In pursuing this question, Appiah begins to explore one of the most fascinating and difficult questions in moral philosophy, the relationship between general principles and particular attachments.
	press.princeton.edu /titles/7806.html (836 words)

	Anthony Appiah: "Racisms"
		According to Appiah, “racism” is a very broad term that can refer both to
		Appiah, like Du Bois and Zack, thinks this claim is false.
		But Appiah (perhaps optimistically) thinks that many racists today just believe false racist propositions because they were raised to believe them, but would be prepared to give them up if evidence were given them disproving those claims.
	spruce.flint.umich.edu /~simoncu/167/appiah.htm (1385 words)

	Lecture by Kwame Anthony Appiah - Knox College News
		In a departure from the traditional guest lecture format, noted philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah spent most of his time at Knox College fielding questions developed by Knox students in advance of the talk.
		Appiah encouraged students to promote cosmopolitanism through political activity -- "voting, canvassing, contacting your representatives, communicating with fellow citizens," he said.
		Appiah answered questions for more than one-hour, then spoke with individual students and faculty after the class was over.
	www.knox.edu /x13337.xml (403 words)

	Amardeep Singh: What is "Cultural Imperialism," anyway? Anthony Appiah
		Princeton philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah has a long piece in the New York Times Magazine this week on his concept of cosmopolitanism.
		Appiah is skeptical about movements to protect the sanctity of "cultural difference" or diversity.
		The other example that is often discussed (and this is not in Appiah's essay, but in my own conversations with friends an family) is a concern that aesthetic values are becoming more homogeneous because of greater American penetration of global markets.
	www.lehigh.edu /~amsp/2006/01/what-is-cultural-imperialism-anyway.html (1637 words)

	Kwame Anthony Appiah Speaker Profile at The Lavin Agency
		Kwame Anthony Appiah is one of America's leading public intellectuals.
		He was born in London to a Ghanaian father who was a barrister and statesman, and a white mother who was of the landed gentry.
		Professor Appiah's new book, Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers, is a major contribution to the contemporary discussion of identity and ethics.
	www.thelavinagency.com /college/kwameanthonyappiah.html (428 words)

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