ABSTRACT

Kwame Anthony Appiah is a professor of philosophy and law at New York University. Previously, he was professor of philosophy and African-American studies at Harvard University and has also held appointments at Cambridge, Yale, Cornell, Duke, and Princeton. He is the author of several books, including Lines of Descent: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity (2014), The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions 266 Happen (2010), Experiments in Ethics (Mary Flexner Lecture Series of Bryn Mawr College) (2008), and Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (Issues of Our Time) (2006).