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Kwame Anthony Appiah (/ˈæpɪɑː/ API-ah; born May 8 1954) is a British-born Ghanaian-American philosopher cultural theorist and novelist whose interests include political and moral theory the philosophy of language and mind and African intellectual history. Kwame Anthony Appiah grew up in Ghana and earned a Ph.D. at Cambridge University. He was the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University before moving to New York University in 2014.

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birth date
1954-05-08
birth place
London
era
Contemporary philosophy
influenced by
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, W. E. B. Du Bois, John Rawls
main interest
Political philosophy, Race (human classification), Semantics, Intellectual history, Morality, Identity theory
philosophicalSchool
Cosmopolitanism

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