Kwame Anthony Akroma-Ampim Kusi Appiah (Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey)

Submitted: Mon, 6 August 2007


Kwame Anthony Akroma-Ampim Kusi Appiah
University Center for Human Values 
Louis Marx Hall
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544-1006

phone: 609-258-4289
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Department of Philosophy
1879 Hall
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544-1006

phone: 609-258-4798
fax: 609-258-2729
E-mail: kappiah@Princeton.EDU

Website: http://www.appiah.net/


Research and teaching interests: African philosophy; African literature 
(anglophone and francophone); African literary theory.  Philosophy of 
anthropology; traditional religions; Akan proverbs.  Political theory of 
plural societies.

Country interests:  Ghana, Nigeria, Namibia, South Africa. 


Selected Books:

Assertion and Conditionals (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985)
 
For Truth in Semantics (Oxford: Blackwell's, 1986)

Necessary Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy (New York: 
Prentice-Hall/Calmann & King, 1989)

In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture (London: 
Methuen, 1992; New York: Oxford University Press, 1992)

Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race (Princeton, NJ: Princeton 
University Press, 1996) with Amy Gutmann. Introduction by David Wilkins.

Bu Me Bé: The Proverbs of the Akan with Peggy Appiah, and with the 
assistance of Ivor Agyeman-Duah (Accra: The Center for Intellectual 
Renewal, 2002)

Thinking It Through: An Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy (New York: 
Oxford University Press, 2003)

The Ethics of Identity (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005)

Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (New York: W. W. Norton, 
2006; London: Allen Lane, 2006)

Experiments in Ethics. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, forthcoming)