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Kwame Anthony Appiah

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May 08, 1954 in London, The United Kingdom

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website

http://www.appiah.net/

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Nonfiction, Mystery & Thrillers

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Kwame Anthony Appiah, the president of the PEN American Center, is the author of The Ethics of Identity, Thinking It Through: An Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy, The Honor Code and the prize-winning Cosmopolitanism. Raised in Ghana and educated in England, he has taught philosophy on three continents and is currently a professor at Princeton University.

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* Sir Patrick Scott Mystery (as Anthony Appiah)

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Books by Kwame Anthony Appiah

Average rating: 3.70 · 1,635 ratings · 231 reviews · 51 distinct works

	Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers 3.58 avg rating — 372 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Ethics of Identity 3.85 avg rating — 89 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen 3.09 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Experiments in Ethics 3.55 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	My rating:
	In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture 3.83 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 1992 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Thinking It Through: An Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy 3.85 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race by Kwame Anthony Appiah, Amy Gutmann, David B. Wilkins (Introduction) 3.74 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Africana by Kwame Anthony Appiah, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Henry Louis Gates 4.53 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1999 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Dictionary of Global Culture: What Every American Needs to Know as We Enter the Next Century--from Diderot to Bo Diddley by Kwame Anthony Appiah, Henry Louis Gates Jr. 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Early African-American Classics 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1990 — 3 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Kwame Anthony Appiah

“In short—to overstate the point only slightly—because people don’t really know why they do what they do, they give explanations of their own behavior that are about as reliable as anyone else’s, and in many circumstances actually less so.”
― Kwame Anthony Appiah

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