Background
Appiah, Kwame Anthony was born on May 8, 1954 in London. Son of Joseph Emmanuel and Peggy (Cripps) Appiah. came to the United States, 1981.
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This book develops in detail the simple idea that assertion is the expression of belief. In it the author puts forward a version of 'probabilistic semantics' which acknowledges that we are not perfectly rational, and which offers a significant advance in generality on theories of meaning couched in terms of truth conditions. It promises to challenge a number of entrenched and widespread views about the relations of language and mind. Part I presents a functionalist account of belief, worked through a modified form of decision theory. In Part II the author generates a theory of meaning in terms of 'assertibility conditions', whereby to know the meaning of an assertion is to know the belief it expresses.
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“A brilliant and humane philosophy for our confused age.”―Samantha Power, author of A Problem from Hell Drawing on a broad range of disciplines, including history, literature, and philosophy―as well as the author's own experience of life on three continents―?Cosmopolitanism? is a moral manifesto for a planet we share with more than six billion strangers.
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Thinking it Through is a thorough, vividly written introduction to contemporary philosophy and some of the most crucial questions of human existence, including the nature of mind and knowledge, the status of moral claims, the existence of God, the role of science, and the mysteries of language. Noted philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah shows us what it means to "do" philosophy in our time and why it should matter to anyone who wishes to live a more thoughtful life. Opposing the common misconceptions that being a philosopher means espousing a set of philosophical beliefs--or being a follower of a particular thinker--Appiah argues that "the result of philosophical exploration is not the end of inquiry in a settled opinion, but a mind resting more comfortably among many possibilities, or else the reframing of the question, and a new inquiry." Ideal for introductory philosophy courses, Thinking It Through is organized around eight central topics--mind, knowledge, language, science, morality, politics, law, and metaphysics. It traces how philosophers in the past have considered each subject (how Hobbes, Wittgenstein, and Frege, for example, approached the problem of language) and then explores some of the major questions that still engage philosophers today. More importantly, Appiah not only explains what philosophers have thought but how they think, giving students examples that they can use in their own attempts to navigate the complex issues confronting any reflective person in the twenty-first century. Filled with concrete examples of how philosophers work, Thinking it Through guides students through the process of philosophical reflection and enlarges their understanding of the central questions of human life.
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Race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, sexuality: in the past couple of decades, a great deal of attention has been paid to such collective identities. They clamor for recognition and respect, sometimes at the expense of other things we value. But to what extent do "identities" constrain our freedom, our ability to make an individual life, and to what extent do they enable our individuality? In this beautifully written work, renowned philosopher and African Studies scholar Kwame Anthony Appiah draws on thinkers through the ages and across the globe to explore such questions. The Ethics of Identity takes seriously both the claims of individuality--the task of making a life---and the claims of identity, these large and often abstract social categories through which we define ourselves. What sort of life one should lead is a subject that has preoccupied moral and political thinkers from Aristotle to Mill. Here, Appiah develops an account of ethics, in just this venerable sense--but an account that connects moral obligations with collective allegiances, our individuality with our identities. As he observes, the question who we are has always been linked to the question what we are. Adopting a broadly interdisciplinary perspective, Appiah takes aim at the clichés and received ideas amid which talk of identity so often founders. Is "culture" a good? For that matter, does the concept of culture really explain anything? Is diversity of value in itself? Are moral obligations the only kind there are? Has the rhetoric of "human rights" been overstretched? In the end, Appiah's arguments make it harder to think of the world as divided between the West and the Rest; between locals and cosmopolitans; between Us and Them. The result is a new vision of liberal humanism--one that can accommodate the vagaries and variety that make us human.
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Appiah, Kwame Anthony was born on May 8, 1954 in London. Son of Joseph Emmanuel and Peggy (Cripps) Appiah. came to the United States, 1981.
Bachelor in Philosophy with honors, Cambridge University, 1975. Master of Arts, Cambridge University, 1980. Doctor of Philosophy in Philosophy, Cambridge University, 1982.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), University Richmond, 2000. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Colgate University, 2003. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Bard College, 2004.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), Fairleigh Dickinson University, 2006. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Swarthmore College, 2006.
Teaching assistant University Ghana, Accra, Ghana, 1975-1976. Tutor Sussex University, Brighton, England, 1977. Research fellow Clare College, Cambridge, 1979-1981.
Assistant professor Yale University, New Haven, 1981-1985, associate professor, 1985-1986, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1986-1989, 89. Professor philosophy Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 1990-1991. Professor Afro-American studies and philosophy Harvard University, Cambridge, 1991—1999, Charles H. Carswell professor Afro-American studies and Philosophy, 1999—2002.
Laurance S. Rockefeller university professor philosophy Princeton University, since 2002. Visiting fellow Yale College, 1979, Clare College, 1983-1984, director studies in philosophy, 1980. Commissioner Howard University Press, Washington, 1988.
Member Joint Committee on African Studies, New York City, 1987-1994. Supervising committee English Institute, Boston, 1990-1994, trustee, since 1995. Board member W.E.B. Du Bois Institute Harvard University, 1991-2002, faculty education, 1997-2002.
Advisory council member Green Center, University Texas, Dallas, 1998-2002. Professor African American studies Princeton University, since 2002, professor comparative literature, since 2005, professor politics, since 2006. Non-fiction juror Pulitzer Prize, 2004.
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Volunteer Martin Luther King Junior After-School Program. Board trustees Facing History, since 1993. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Member American Academy of Arts and Letters, Modern Language Association (member executive council 2003-2006), Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association (chair freedom to write committee 1996-2003), African Literature Association, African Studies Association, American Philosophical Society (vice president eastern division 2006, president eastern division 2007, chairman board officers 2008), American Academy Berlin (board directors 2005-2006), American Academy Religion, American Council Learned Societies (board directors since 2004, board chairman since 2005), Council Foreign Relations, Aristotelian Society, Society African Philosophy in North America (founding member, president 1991-1994).