Kwame Anthony Appiah

Kwame Anthony Akroma - Kusi Appiah AMPIm ( born May 8, 1954 in London) is an analytic philosopher who works on issues of semantics, ethics, politics and intercultural philosophy, among others and in addition to extensive publishing activities writes novels. He is a professor at Princeton University.

Life

Appiah was born in London, the son of the famous Ghanaian politician and jurist Joseph Emmanuel Appiah and born in the UK and has become known in Ghana through their children's books Peggy Cripps. He spent his childhood in Kumasi in Ghana.

Appiah studied from 1972 to 1982 at Clare College, Cambridge and obtained his doctorate there (Ph. D. ). Subsequently, he was from 1982 to 1986 at Yale, from 1986 to 1990 at Cornell and then from 1990 to 1991 at Duke. From 1991 to 2002 he was at Harvard, and in 2002 he went to Princeton.

Works ( incomplete)

• In My Father's House. Africa in the Philosophy of Culture, New York 1993 ISBN 0195068521
• Cosmopolitan patriotism. Inheritance of our time, 2009 ISBN 978-3518122303
• Thinking it Through - An Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy, 2003 ISBN 0195134583 (revision of An Introduction to Philosophy, 1989)
• The ethics of identity, Princeton, NJ 2005 ISBN 0691120366
• The cosmopolitan. Philosophy of cosmopolitanism, Munich 2007 ISBN 9783406563270 (English Original 2006)
• Ethical experiments. Exercises to the good life, München, Beck, 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-59264-5
• A question of honor or as it comes to moral revolutions, CH Beck, Munich 2011 ISBN 978-3-406-61488-0