Kwame Anthony Appiah
British-American philosopher and writer · United States · On the map · Academics · Born 1954 · age 72
Kwame Akroma-Ampim Kusi Anthony Appiah is a Ghanaian-English-American philosopher and writer who has written about political philosophy, ethics, the philosophy of language and mind, and African intellectual history.
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Appiah is Professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University, where he joined the faculty in 2014, and has been a Silver Professor since 2025. He was previously the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University. Appiah was elected President of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in January 2022.
