Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers

Kwame Anthony Appiah, named one of Foreign Policy's Top 100 public intellectuals, is the Laurence S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University. He is also the president of the PEN American Center, the world's oldest human rights organization. In 2012 he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by the White House. Born in London to a Ghanaian father and a white mother, he was raised in Ghana and educated in England at Cambridge University, where he received a PhD in philosophy. As a scholar of African and African-American studies, he established himself as an intellectual with a broad reach. His book In My Father's House and his collaborations with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., including The Dictionary of Global Culture and Africana, are major works of African struggles for self-determination. His latest book is The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen. Part of the Technology, Globalization & Culture Series and the World Affairs Series.