Kwame Anthony Appiah

Kwame Anthony Appiah
Appiah at Fronteiras do Pensamento Porto Alegre 2013
Born (1954-05-08) 8 May 1954
London, England
SpouseHenry Finder
Education
Alma materClare College, Cambridge
ThesisConditions for Conditionals (1981)
Philosophical work
EraContemporary philosophy
Region
SchoolCosmopolitanism
Main interestsProbabilistic semantics, political theory, moral theory, intellectual history, race and identity theory

Kwame Akroma-Ampim Kusi Anthony Appiah FRSL (/ˈæpiɑː/ AP-ee-ah; born 8 May 1954) is an English-American philosopher and writer who has written about political philosophy, ethics, the philosophy of language and mind, and African intellectual history. 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.