Kwame Anthony Appiah is a philosopher and novelist. He was born in London, raised in Ghana, and educated at Bryanston School and Clare College, Cambridge, where he earned a Ph.D. in philosophy. His father was Ghanaian barrister Joe Appiah, and his mother was Peggy Cripps, a daughter of Sir Stafford Cripps. He is openly gay. Jump to: navigation, search A philosopher is a person devoted to studying and producing results in philosophy. ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... Jump to: navigation, search The clock tower of the Palace of Westminster, which contains Big Ben London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ... Bryanston School is an independent public school in Blandford, north Dorset, near the village of Bryanston. ... Jump to: navigation, search Full name Clare College Motto - Named after Elizabeth de Clare Previous names University Hall (1326), Clare Hall (1338), Clare College (1856) Established 1326 Sister College Oriel College St Hughs College Master Prof. ... Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. ... Jump to: navigation, search Philosophy is a discipline or field of study involving the investigation, analysis, and development of ideas at a general, abstract, or fundamental level. ... Jump to: navigation, search This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Rt Hon Sir Stafford Cripps Sir Richard Stafford Cripps (April 24, 1889 - April 21, 1952), British Labour politician, was born in London, the son of a Conservative member of the House of Commons who late in life, as Lord Parmoor, joined the Labour Party. ... Jump to: navigation, search This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

He has taught philosophy and African and African-American studies at Cambridge, Duke, Cornell, Yale, Harvard, and Princeton Universities. He is currently Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton (with a cross-appointment at the University Center for Human Values). In 1992, Appiah published In My Father's House, which won the Herskovitz Prize for African Studies in English; among his later books are Colour Conscious (with Amy Gutmann) and The Ethics of Identity, which appeared in 2005. The University of Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world, with one of the most selective sets of entry requirements in the United Kingdom. ... Jump to: navigation, search Duke Chapel Duke University is a prestigious, private university in Durham, North Carolina. ... Jump to: navigation, search For other uses of the name Cornell, see Cornell (disambiguation). ... Jump to: navigation, search For other uses, see Yale (disambiguation). ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ... Jump to: navigation, search For other Princetons, see Princeton. ... Rockefeller Rockefeller family Rockefeller Group International, Inc. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1992 was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Jump to: navigation, search 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Appiah's early philosophical work dealt with probabilistic semantics and theories of meaning, but his more recent books have tackled philosophical problems of race and racism. His fiction consists of drawing-room detective stories; none of his four novels has gained a wide audience. The first, Avenging Angel, set in the University of Cambridge, involved a murder among the Cambridge Apostles. In the main, semantics (from the Greek semantikos, or significant meaning, derived from sema, sign) is the study of meaning, in some sense of that term. ... Jump to: navigation, search A race is a population of humans distinguished from other populations. ... Jump to: navigation, search A black man drinks out of a water fountain designated for black people in 1939 at a streetcar terminal. ... The University of Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world, with one of the most selective sets of entry requirements in the United Kingdom. ... Trinity College Great Court. ...

See also

• African philosophy

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External link

• Princeton home page