Africa

United States of America

Professor of philosophy

Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey

kappiah@princeton.edu

University Center for Human Values
Louis Marx Hall
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544-1006

Department of Philosophy
1879 Hall
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544-1006

phone: 609-258-4798
fax: 609-258-2729

http://www.appiah.net/

Ghana ; Nigeria ; Namibia ; South Africa.

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

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

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 Be: 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)

philosophy ; religion ; akan ; tradition ; literature ; pluralism.