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	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'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.
		With Peggy Appiah, and with the assistance of Ivor Agyeman-Duah.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kwame_Anthony_Appiah (1053 words)

	Joe Appiah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Joseph Emmanuel Appiah (1918 - 1990) was born at Adum in Kumasi, the son of James Appiah and Adwoa Akyaa.
		Appiah was intermittently involved in public life as a diplomat and a government minister from then on until his retirement in 1978.
		Appiah is remarkable for the consistency of his moderate nationalism, his Pan-Africanism, his cosmopolitanism and the steadying role he played in post-independence Ghanain politics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joe_Appiah (376 words)

	Easier Said Than Done
		Appiah, a professor of philosophy at Princeton, seeks to revive cosmopolitanism, a view of humans as citizens of the world that was advanced by the Cynics in Greece in the fourth century BCE and elaborated by Stoic philosophers in Roman times.
		Appiah defends cosmopolitanism in the apparent belief that it tends to bolster liberal values, when in fact it is bound to be open-ended.
		Appiah believes that cosmopolitan theory has a special relevance today, and he succeeds in showing that this neglected and attractive tradition of thought deserves serious attention as a habitable middle ground between liberalism and relativism.
	www.thenation.com /docprint.mhtml?i=20060130&s=gray (1831 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.
		Kwame Anthony Appiah is, perhaps, uniquely qualified to articulate this aspiration, since he has successfully crossed so many of the borders that divide and alienate us from each other.
		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.
	prelectur.stanford.edu /lecturers/appiah (1843 words)

	Rooted Cosmopolitans by Ethan J. Leib - Policy Review 137 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		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.policyreview.org /137/leib.html (3184 words)

	Tavis Smiley . Archive . Wednesday March 1st . Transcript \| PBS
		Tavis: Kwame Anthony Appiah is a professor of philosophy at Princeton and the author of a thought-provoking new book that was the subject of a recent “New York Times Magazine” cover piece.
		Appiah: Well, to be a cosmopolitan, one of the things you have to accept is that you aren't in charge of setting the terms that other people live on.
		Appiah: Well, you know, one of the things about the United States is that it is a country that is very self-consciously diverse now and that's good, but you have to remember that that diversity comes with a great deal of shared American stuff.
	www.pbs.org /kcet/tavissmiley/archive/200603/20060301_transcript.html (4002 words)

	Cosmopolitanism
		Kwame Anthony Appiah is the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University.
		Kwame Anthony Appiah: By the way, on the cartoons question, I thought the analusis of the images by HILLEL HALKIN in the NY Sun on February 7, 2006 was very good; as was a Knight Ridder/Tribune piece "Prophet often depicted in Islamic, Western worlds" by Andrew Maykuth on Thursday.
		Kwame Anthony Appiah: This seems basically right to me. Not least because listening to propaganda, if that is what it is, is one way of learning why and how other people think differently.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/discussion/2006/02/01/DI2006020101490_pf.html (4106 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)

	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)

	Lingua Franca - 06/08/2005: Race and Racism...
		Kwame Anthony Appiah is Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University.
		Kwame Anthony Appiah: It's very hard for people who see a dark-skinned person here with curly hair and a person here with almond-shaped eyes, and what we call yellow skin—I've never understood why we call the skin colour of people from East Asia yellow— and then, as it were, Bjorn Borg over here.
		Kwame Anthony Appiah: I would, though I should say I haven't had a lot of luck in getting people to agree with me that this is an important distinction since that book came out, and I try and explain it regularly and people often wonder why I bothered.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/arts/ling/stories/s1429239.htm (1272 words)

	Amazon.com: The Ethics of Identity: Books: Kwame Anthony Appiah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Kwame Anthony Appiah has always sought to take seriously both the individual and the context in which she is embedded.
		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).
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0691120366?v=glance (2155 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (Issues of Our Time) - Kwame Anthony ...
		Appiah, a noted analytical philosopher who grew up in the Asante region of Ghana believes that, yes, we have a duty to aid the impoverished.
		Appiah also believes that our duty to aid others has its limits: "Each of us should do our fair share; but we cannot be required to do more." To support his view, he presents a penetrating criticism of Ethical Relativism and Positivism.
		Appiah uses his own life as an example of cosmopolitanism: he grew up in Ghana, where his family participates actively in the traditions of the Asante, as well as those of Great Britain, and now of the whole world, as his family members now live in several countries.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /bookSearch/isbnInquiry.asp?r=1&isbn=0393061558 (1353 words)

	The Daily Princetonian - Appiah discusses Mill's identity theory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Weaving biography and philosophy, Kwame Anthony Appiah, the Laurance Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values, discussed the intersection of ethics and identity as conceived by 19th-century English philosopher John Stuart Mill.
		Quoting Sinatra as well as Sartre, Appiah argued that identity, as a "mutable set of organized aims within a longterm vision," is neither arbitrary nor overly individualistic, but contributes to human wellbeing.
		Instead, Appiah said the idea that "makes some kind of human sense" is that people construct their own identities in response to some factors beyond their control.
	www.dailyprincetonian.com /archives/2003/12/11/news/9355.shtml (516 words)

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		Appiah teaches philosophy at Harvard University and is a member of the Department of Afro-American Studies headed by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
		Appiah's attempt to put words in the text that do not have any basis in fact is cute but not the aim of my Afrocentric project or that of others I know.
		Mudimbe, whom Appiah does not mention, is a significant scholar in his own right and Afrocentrists do find much that is useful in Mudimbe although, to be sure, Mudimbe has much to learn from the agency of Africans demonstrated in the works of the Afrocentrists.
	www.asante.net /articles/Appiah-fallacies.html (2723 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Ideas / The trouble with identity
		AS KWAME ANTHONY APPIAH explains in his just-published book, ''The Ethics of Identity'' (Princeton), the Greek Stoics who came up with the word ''cosmopolitan'' meant it to be a paradox.
		APPIAH: The Know-Nothings was a movement in the 19th century, and the analogy there was just to the hostility to intellectuals.
		APPIAH: The trouble that most worries me is that people make appeals to cultural difference to justify resisting just the sort of moral demands that I think everybody ought to recognize.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/ideas/articles/2005/02/06/the_trouble_with_identity?pg=full (1263 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)

	Kwame Anthony Appiah Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		In this vastly important, widely-acclaimed volume, Appiah, a Ghanaian philosopher who now teaches at Harvard, explores what it means to be an African American, on the many preconceptions that have muddled discussions of face, Africa, and Afrocentrism since the end of the 19th century.
		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 politcs and in our moral lives.
		The study of identity crosses all disciplinary borders to address such issues as the multiple interactions of race, class, and gender in feminist, lesbian, and gay studies, postcolonialism and globalization, and the interrelation of nationalism and ethnicity in ethnic and area studies.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Kwame_Anthony_Appiah (1430 words)

	Amazon.ca: In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Appiah's arguments in favor of reexamining what it means to be African, while he has labored to disassociate them from the Pan-Africanist agenda, seem unsure on the issue of Pan Africanist hopes.
		Appiah questions "...the evaluative assumption that recovery of tradition is worthwhile," implying that it is not (95).
		Appiah finds all the roots of this identity and gives them rigorous criticism in light of his own personal view of Africa as well as a solid reading of African philosophy, social science and history.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0195068521 (1379 words)

	polylog / literature / reviews / Safro Kwame: Reflecting African Political Theories. On Teodros Kiros (ed.): ...
		In this preface, Appiah traces the history of African philosophy from the time he started teaching philosophy at the University of Ghana to his current teaching appointment at Harvard University and marvels at the proliferation in African philosophical texts.
		Probably in our naivety or outright ignorance we, the students in Appiah's class at the time, thought such an anthology already existed or, if it did not, it was bound to exist in a matter of time.
		Anthony Appiah argues that allegiance to a traditional monarchy is not inconsistent with a belief in a modern African republic and may even reinforce one's self-respect in the republic.
	lit.polylog.org /3/rks-en.htm (2081 words)

	Oxford University Press: In My Father's House: Kwame Anthony Appiah
		Appiah rescues the philosophy of culture from Herder by insisting that we drop notions like 'authentic negritude' and that 'African culture' is the name of an important project rather than of an available datum.
		"Appiah's concern is, he modestly states, 'with the situation of African intellectuals.' In the growing literature on the subject, nobody has defined that situation, as it exists now, more sharply; nobody has built so many bridges to a discourse that might be shared universally.
		Kwame Anthony Appiah is Professor of Afro-American Studies at Harvard University.
	www.oup.com /us/catalog/general/subject/HistoryAmerican/AfricanAmerican/~~/cHI9MTAmcGY9MCZzcz1hdXRob3IuYXNjJnNmPWFsbCZzZD1hc2Mmdmlldz11c2EmY2k9MDE5NTA2ODUyMQ== (919 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)

	Cultural Complexity by Arlene Goldbard - Art Changes / In Motion Magazine
		Kwame Anthony Appiah, who wrote so eloquently of his own journey between cultures in In My Father's House -- has published a sticky quagmire of an essay, "The Case for Contamination," in last Sunday's
		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)

	Afrocentrism in Reflection with Appiah's Theory
		Harvard professor Kwame Anthony Appiah, in his book In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture, presents a perspective that has commonalities, yet strongly differs from Afrocentric perspectives in critical areas of thought.
		Appiah's contention would likely be reviled as being too reliant about European examples and models, and hence issues such as this are the precise reason why Afrocentric pedagogical education is absolutely necessary.
		Appiah contends that the "choices that racism imposes on us"--and it is quite likely that Afrocentrism, in his mind, is little more than a political choice--are choices that should be rejected.
	www.msu.edu /~hicksmi3/afro.html (1109 words)

	Winter 2006 Lecture Series - A&L News Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Appiah, a Philosophy Professor at Princeton University, is one of the foremost scholars of African-American literary and cultural studies
		Appiah will illustrate how Western intellectuals and leaders, on both the left and the right, have wildly exaggerated the power of difference and neglected commonality.
		Appiah was born in London (where his Ghanaian father was a law student) but moved as an infant to Ghana, where he grew up.
	www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu /pr/appiah.asp (694 words)

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