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29The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions HappenW. W. Norton & Company. 2010.K. Anthony Appiah, the author of the internationally best-selling Cosmopolitanism, analyzes what causes societies to end cruelty and injustices - such as slavery, foot binding, or honor killing. Can a government through its laws halt egregious violations of human decency and can mere moral instruction bring an end to human suffering? No, says Appiah, demonstrating how reform succeeds only when it enlists the primal human sense of honor. When it comes to morality, honor is the lever arm that conn…Read more
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233. Political Ideals: Lessons from John RawlsIn As If: Idealization and Ideals, Harvard University Press. pp. 112-174. 2017.
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23Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of AngerCommon Knowledge 13 (1): 143-143. 2007.
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20Causes of quarrel: what's special about religious disputesIn Thomas Banchoff (ed.), Religious Pluralism, Globalization and World Politics, Oxford University Press. 2008.
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19Why Africa? Why Art?In Tom Phillips (ed.), Africa: The Art of a Continent, Royal Academy. pp. 21-26. 1995.
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18As If: Idealization and IdealsHarvard University Press. 2017.Idealization is a fundamental feature of human thought. We build simplified models in our scientific research and utopias in our political imaginations. Concepts like belief, desire, reason, and justice are bound up with idealizations and ideals. Life is a constant adjustment between the models we make and the realities we encounter. In idealizing, we proceed “as if” our representations were true, while knowing they are not. This is not a dangerous or distracting occupation, Kwame Anthony Appiah…Read more
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18Struggle for Meaning: Reflections on Philosophy, Culture, and Democracy in AfricaOhio University Press. 2002.In this volume, he responds with autobiographical and philosophical reflection to the dialogue and controversy he has provoked.
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171. Useful Untruths: Lessons from Hans VaihingerIn As If: Idealization and Ideals, Harvard University Press. pp. 1-56. 2017.
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142. A Measure of Belief: Lessons from Frank RamseyIn As If: Idealization and Ideals, Harvard University Press. pp. 57-111. 2017.
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14Call for PapersCommon Knowledge 25 (1-3): 9-10. 2019.At the founding editor’s invitation in 1991–92, the members of the editorial board and the department editors of Common Knowledge wrote individual and small-group calls for papers to be published in the inaugural issue of Spring 1992 and the succeeding issue, Fall 1992. This call for papers was published among the second group.
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13Old Gods, New Worlds: Some Recent Work in the Philosophy of African Traditional ReligionIn Guttorm Fløistad (ed.), Contemporary Philosophy: A New Survey - Vol. 5: African Philosophy, Martinus Nijhoff. pp. 207-234. 1987.
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10EpilogueIn Amy Gutmann & Kwame Anthony Appiah (eds.), Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race, Princeton University Press. pp. 179-184. 1998.
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10African Philosophy and African LiteratureIn Kwasi Wiredu (ed.), A Companion to African Philosophy, Blackwell. pp. 538--548. 2004.
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10This book aims to allow readers with no previous exposure to professional philosophy to gain an understanding of the approaches and the positions current in the field and to prepare them for further reading
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9In defence of honourThe Philosophers' Magazine 53 22-31. 2011.The object of the exercise is to understand what we can do to stop something bad. It would be better if people stopped for the purest of motives, but it’s best if they stop. And if the choice is between their stopping for the wrong reasons and their not stopping I favour their stopping for the wrong reasons. Kant may be right that people ought to stop killing because they see that it’s wrong. That ought to be enough, but it may not be, and if it isn’t, if there’s something else that can actually…Read more
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8The Arts of AfricaIn Richard English & Joseph Morrison Skelly (eds.), Ideas Matter: Essays in Honour of Connor Cruise o’Brien, Poolberg. pp. 251-264. 1998.
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7The Uncompleted Argument: Du Bois and the Illusion of RaceIn Henry Louis Gates Jr (ed.), Race, Writing and Difference, University of Chicago Press. pp. 21--37. 1986.
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6Buying Freedom: The Ethics and Economics of Slave Redemption (edited book)Princeton University Press. 2007.If "slavery" is defined broadly to include bonded child labor and forced prostitution, there are upward of 25 million slaves in the world today. Individuals and groups are freeing some slaves by buying them from their enslavers. But slave redemption is as controversial today as it was in pre-Civil War America. In Buying Freedom, Kwame Anthony Appiah and Martin Bunzl bring together economists, anthropologists, historians, and philosophers for the first comprehensive examination of the practical a…Read more
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6Philosophy in and out of the armchairIn T. J. Smiley, Jonathan Lear & Alex Oliver (eds.), The Force of Argument: Essays in Honor of Timothy Smiley, Routledge. 2010.
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6Akan and Euro-American Concepts of the PersonIn Lee M. Brown (ed.), African Philosophy: New and Traditional Perspectives, Oxford University. pp. 21--34. 2004.
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6ContributorsPoznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 88 (1): 141-142. 2005.
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