Anthony Appiah

Kwame Akroma-Ampim Music( born 8 May 1954) is a Ghanaian-English-American philosopher and writer who has written about political philosophy, ethics, the philosophy of language and mind, and African intellectual history. Appiah is Professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University, where he joined the faculty in 2014,and has been a Silver Professor since 2025.He was previously the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University.Appiah was elected President of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in January 2022. Quotes Once you start offering reasons for ignoring the interests of others, however, reasoning itself will usually draw you into a kind of universality. A reason is an offer of a ground for thinking or feeling or doing something. And it isn’t a ground for me, unless it’s a ground for you. If someone really thinks that some group of people genuinely doesn’t matter at all, he will suppose they are outside the circle of those to whom justifications are due. And, like many philosophers, I am of the school that what goes without saying often goes even better with saying. All Faith is false, all Faith is true: Truth is the shattered mirror strown In myriad bits; while each believes His little bit the whole to own. In the world of identity, utterances have functions, separate from their meanings. Self-regarding considerations can be as universalizable as other-regarding considerations: we owe things to ourselves as well to others Quotes