Kwame Anthony Appiah

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Full Name	Kwame Anthony Appiah
Occupation	Philosopher
Date Of Birth	May 8, 1954(1954-05-08)
Age	70
Birthplace	England
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Taurus

Kwame Anthony Appiah Biography

Kwame Anthony Appiah is one of the most popular and richest Philosopher who was born on May 8, 1954 in England, England, United Kingdom. Professor and philosopher at Princeton University who focused on political and moral theory.

He was influenced by W.E.B. DuBois.

Kwame Akroma-Ampim Kusi Anthony Appiah (/ˈ æ p i ɑː / AP -ee-ah; born 8 May 1954) is a British-Ghanaian philosopher, cultural theorist, and novelist whose interests include political and moral theory, the philosophy of language and mind, and African intellectual history. Appiah was the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, before moving to New York University (NYU) in 2014. He holds an appointment at the NYU Department of Philosophy and NYU’s School of Law.

Appiah was born in London, England, to Peggy Cripps Appiah, an English art historian and writer, and Joe Appiah, a lawyer, diplomat, and politician from the Asante region, once part of the British Gold Coast colony but now part of Ghana. For two years (1970–72) Joe Appiah was the leader of a new opposition party that was made by the country’s three opposing parties. Simultaneously he was the president of the Ghana Bar Association. Between 1977 and 1978, he was Ghana’s representative at the United Nations. He died in an Accra hospital in 1990.

He married Henry Finder in 2011 after dating for over 25 years.

Kwame Anthony Appiah Net Worth

Kwame Anthony Appiah is one of the richest Philosopher from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Kwame Anthony Appiah 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He earned his Ph.D. at Cambridge University.

He won the Herskovitz Prize for African Studies in English.

Appiah’s mother’s family has a long political tradition: Sir Stafford was a nephew of Beatrice Webb and was Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer (1947–50) under Clement Attlee; his father, Charles Cripps, was Labour Leader of the House of Lords (1929–31) as Lord Parmoor in Ramsay MacDonald’s government; Parmoor had been a Conservative MP before defecting to Labour.

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In 2008, Appiah published Experiments in Ethics, in which he reviews the relevance of empirical research to ethical theory. In the same year, he was recognised for his contributions to racial, ethnic, and religious relations when Brandeis University awarded him the first Joseph B. and Toby Gittler Prize.

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Kwame Ranked on the list of most popular Philosopher. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Kwame Anthony Appiah celebrates birthday on May 8 of every year.

On postmodern culture Appiah writes, “Postmodern culture is the culture in which all postmodernisms operate, sometimes in synergy, sometimes in competition; and because contemporary culture is, in a certain sense to which I shall return, transnational, postmodern culture is global – though that emphatically does not mean that it is the culture of every person in the world.”

Top Facts about Kwame Anthony Appiah

1. Kwame Anthony Appiah is a British American philosopher and writer.
2. Appiah was born in London and raised in Kumasi, Ghana.
3. Appiah is a direct descendant of Osei Tutu, a pre-colonial warrior emperor in Ghana, and has a long political tradition in his family.
4. Appiah holds appointments at the NYU Department of Philosophy and NYU’s School of Law.
5. Appiah was elected President of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in January 2022.
6. Appiah has won numerous awards and recognitions, including the 2009 Eugene R. Gannon Award, 2010 Foreign Policy Magazine top global thinker, 2012 National Humanities Medal, and 2018 Joseph B. and Toby Gittler Prize.
7. Appiah has published many books about political philosophy, ethics, language and mind, and African intellectual history.
8. His early work focused on the foundations of probabilistic semantics.
9. Appiah has lectured at many universities and spoken at many university campuses.
10. Appiah has criticised contemporary Afrocentrism theories.
11. Appiah lives with his husband in two homes – an apartment in Manhattan and a sheep farm in Pennington, New Jersey
12. Appiah’s nephew is the actor Adetomiwa Edun.
13. Appiah argues that the formative entity of culture is preceded by the efficacy of intellectual interchange.
14. In his book Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers, Appiah introduces two concepts – respect for cultural differences, as long as they do not harm people and our universal concern for human life and well-being.
15. Appiah promotes global citizenship and encourages cultural exploration, such as watching films with subtitles.

What is Kwame Anthony Appiah philosophy?

Kwame Anthony Appiah (1954-current) is a British born, American-Ghanaian philosopher. He is best known for his work on cosmopolitanism , a philosophy that holds all human beings as members of a single, global community.

What did Kwame Anthony Appiah do?

Kwame Anthony Appiah, in full Kwame Anthony Akroma-Ampim Kusi Appiah, (born May 8, 1954, London, England), British-born American philosopher, novelist, and scholar of African and African American studies , best known for his contributions to political philosophy, moral psychology, and the philosophy of culture.

Where is Kwame Anthony Appiah from?

London, United Kingdom

Who is Ernest Akwasi Appiah?

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