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2Afterword: How Shall We Live as Many?In Wendy Katkin, Ned Landsman & Andrew Tyree (eds.), Beyone Pluralism: The Conception of Groups and Group Identities in America, University of Illinois. pp. 243-59. 1998.
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229In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of CultureOxford University Press. 1992.Abusua do funu. The matriclan loves a corpse. AKAN PROVERB My father died, as I say, while I was trying to finish this book. His funeral was an occasion for strengthening and reaffirming the ties that bind me to Ghana and “my father's house' ...
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1Ethnophilosophy and its critics: a trialogueIn Safro Kwame (ed.), Readings in African Philosophy: An Akan Collection, University Press of America. pp. 83-94. 1995.
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1An Aesthetics for Adornment in Some African CulturesIn Marie-Thérèse Brincard (ed.), Beauty by Design: The Aesthetics of African Adornment, African-american Institute. pp. 15-19. 1984.
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413“Group Rights” and Racial Affirmative ActionThe Journal of Ethics 15 (3): 265-280. 2011.This article argues against the view that affirmative action is wrong because it involves assigning group rights. First, affirmative action does not have to proceed by assigning rights at all. Second, there are, in fact, legitimate “group rights” both legal and moral; there are collective rights—which are exercised by groups—and membership rights—which are rights people have in virtue of group membership. Third, there are continuing harms that people suffer as blacks and claims to remediation fo…Read more
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4Ethnophilosophy and Its CriticsIn P. H. Coetzee & A. J. P. Roux (eds.), Philosophy from Africa: a text with readings, Routledge. 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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721African IdentitiesIn Bernard Boxill (ed.), Constructions Identitaires: Questionnements Theoriques Et Etudes de Cas. Actes du Celat 6 (May), Universite Laval. 1992.
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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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2Ethnic Identity as a Political ResourceIn Teodros Kiros (ed.), Explorations in African Political Thought: Identity and Community, Routledge. pp. 45-54. 2001.
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59The Ethics of IdentityPrinceton University Press. 2005.This text explores the ethical significance of identity, including our gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion and sexuality, for our obligations to others and to ourselves.
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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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5In My Father's HouseHypatia 11 (1): 175-201. 1996.Judeo-Christian and Anglo-Saxon forms of marriage have injected patrilineal values and companionate expectations into the Akan matrilineal family structure. As Anthony Appiah demonstrates, these infusions have generated severe strains in the matrikin social structures and, in extreme cases, resulted in the break up of families. In this essay, I investigate the ideological politics at play in this patrilinealization of Asante society
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100Noah Feldman’s elegant essay contains many attractive suggestions, especially in its final compelling discussions of various conceptions of Cosmopolitan Law. Less importantly for your purposes, dear Reader, than for mine, it also provides a fair and clear account of some of my own discussions of cosmopolitanism (in the course of which I have made a few suggestions that may be of relevance for the law). In this brief response, I should like to focus on clarifying one of the conceptual distinction…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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309African studies and the concept of knowledgePoznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 88 (1): 23-56. 2005.This article summarizes my views on epistemological problems in African studies as I have expressed them previously in different contexts, mainly my book In My Father's House (1992), to which I refer the reader for further details. I start with an attempt to expose some natural errors in our thinking about the traditional-modern polarity, and thus help understand some striking and not generally appreciated similarities of the logical problem situation in modern western philosophy of science to t…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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19Why Africa? Why Art?In Tom Phillips (ed.), Africa: The Art of a Continent, Royal Academy. pp. 21-26. 1995.
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5Whose culture is it?In James Cuno (ed.), Whose Culture?, Princeton University Press. pp. 71-86. 2009.
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6ContributorsPoznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 88 (1): 141-142. 2005.
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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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242Experimental PhilosophyProceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 82 (2). 2008.Some three score years ago, the Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess found himself dissatisfied with “what are called ‘theories of truth’ in philosophical literature.” “The discussion has already lasted some 2500 years,” he wrote. “The number of participants amounts to a thousand, and the number of articles and books devoted to the discussion is much greater.” In this great ocean of words, he went on, the philosophers had often made bold statements about what “the man in the street” or “Das Volk” or…Read more
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86RacismsIn David Goldberg (ed.), Anatomy of Racism, University of Minnesota Press. pp. 3-17. 1990.
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