Book Kwame Anthony Appiah

Kwame Anthony Appiah is a Ghanaian-English-American philosopher and author whose work on ethics, identity and cultural belonging reaches far beyond the academy. He is Professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University, which he joined in 2014, and was named a Silver Professor in 2025; before that he held the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professorship of Philosophy at Princeton. Over his career he has also taught at the University of Ghana, Cornell, Yale, Harvard and Duke. His books include In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture (1992), Cosmopolitanism: Ethics In A World Of Strangers (2006), Experiments in Ethics (2008), The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen (2011) and The Lies that Bind: Rethinking Identity (2018). He received the National Humanities Medal in 2011 and the Kluge Prize in 2024, along with the Arthur Ross Book Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Ralph J. Bunche Award and the Philip L. Quinn Prize. In 2022 the American Academy of Arts and Letters chose him as its president, and he has served as a Booker Prize judge. Appiah makes big moral questions clear, humane and engaging for any audience.