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Appiah, Anthony

LC control no.n 84222140
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPS3551.P558
Personal name headingAppiah, Anthony
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Variant(s)Appiah, Kwame Anthony
Appiah, K. A. (Kwame Anthony)
Other standard no.0000000121244918
24621538
Q572741
Associated countryGhana United States
Associated placeEngland
Birth date1954-05-08
Place of birthLondon (England)
Field of activityPhilosophy Ethics Identity (Philosophical concept) Race--Philosophy Philosophy of mind Political science--Philosophy
AffiliationUniversity of Cambridge University of Ghana Yale University Princeton University W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research PEN America New York University
Profession or occupationUniversity and college faculty members
Novelists Philosophers Scholars
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Found inAssertion and conditionals, c1985: CIP t.p. (Anthony Appiah; ass. prof. of phil. and Afro-Amer. stud., Yale U.)
In my Father's house, c1992: CIP t.p. (Kwame Anthony Appiah) data sht. (b. 05-08-54)
Zora Neale Hurston, c1993: CIP t.p. (K.A. Appiah)
Africana, 1999: CIP t.p. (Kwame Anthony Appiah, Harvard Univ.)
African American National Biography, accessed November 17, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Appiah, Kwame Anthony; novelist, philosopher, scholar; born 08 May 1954 in London, England; BA and PhD in Philosophy from Cambridge University, England (1975 and 1982); Cambridge University Press published his first book (1985); held appointments at the University of Ghana, Cambridge University, Yale (1981-1986), Cornell (1986-1989), Duke (1990-1991), Harvard (1999-2002); named the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University (2002); was on the board of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard; born in London, raised in Ghana, and citizen of the United States, he was personified the "citizen of the world"; became President of the PEN American Center (2009))
New York University website, 5 Nov. 2020: Department of Philosophy faculty page (Kwame Anthony Appiah; research interests: ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of mind, philosophy of race, probability and decision theory)
   <https://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/departments/philosophy/directory/faculty.html>
Associated languageeng