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    The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen
    W. 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
  • Wereldburgers?
    Nexus 26. 2000.
    Appiah onderzoekt in zijn essay het kosmopolitische respect voor verschillen en wat dit respect vereist 'wanneer we verwikkeld zijn in morele debatten die over de grenzen tussen de naties heen reiken'. Volgens Appiah kunnen kosmopolieten al een wereldburgerschap laten gelden zonder dat daar enige verandering van de politieke instituties aan te pas komt: mede-wereldburgerschap kan al in praktijk gebracht worden zonder veranderingen op institutioneel niveau af te wachten.
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    The Limits of Pluralism
    In Arthur M. Melzer, Jerry Weinberger & M. Richard Zinman (eds.), Multiculturalism and American Democracy, University of Kansas Press. pp. 37-54. 1998.
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    3. Political Ideals: Lessons from John Rawls
    In As If: Idealization and Ideals, Harvard University Press. pp. 112-174. 2017.
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    More Experiments in Ethics
    Neuroethics 3 (3): 233-242. 2010.
    This paper responds to the four critiques of my book Experiments in Ethics published in this issue. The main theme I take up is how we should understand the relation between psychology and philosophy. Young and Saxe believe that “bottom line” evaluative judgments don’t depend on facts. I argue for a different view, according to which our evaluative and non-evaluative judgments must cohere in a way that makes it rational, sometimes, to abandon even what looks like a basic evaluative judgment beca…Read more
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    What Is a Science of Religion?
    Philosophy 93 (4): 485-503. 2018.
    Modern sociology and anthropology proposed from their very beginnings a scientific study of religion. This paper discusses attempts to understand religion in this ‘scientific’ way. I start with a classical canon of anthropology and sociology of religion, in the works of E. B. Tylor, Max Weber and Émile Durkheim. Science aims to be a discourse that transcends local identities; it is deeply cosmopolitan. To offer a local metaphysics as its basis would produce a discourse that was not recognizable …Read more
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    Index of Names
    In As If: Idealization and Ideals, Harvard University Press. pp. 215-222. 2017.
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    In defence of honour
    The Philosophers' Magazine 53 (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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    Multiculturalism: Expanded Paperback Edition
    with Charles Taylor, Jürgen Habermas, Stephen C. Rockefeller, Michael Walzer, and Susan Wolf
    Princeton University Press. 1994.
    A new edition of the highly acclaimed book Multiculturalism and "The Politics of Recognition," this paperback brings together an even wider range of leading philosophers and social scientists to probe the political controversy surrounding ...
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    In this volume, he responds with autobiographical and philosophical reflection to the dialogue and controversy he has provoked.
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    Anthony Appiah’s essay on liberal education in the United States begins by identifying a distinctive feature of classical liberalism – namely, that the state must respect substantial limits with respect to its authority to impose restrictions on individuals, even for their own good. Nevertheless, Appiah points out, the primary aim of liberal education is to ‘maximize autonomy not to minimize government involvement’. Most of the essays in this volume, including Appiah’s, are attempts to address t…Read more
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  • Race, Pluralism and Afrocentricity
    Journal of Blacks in Higher Education 19 (Spring): 116-18. 1998.
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    Only-ifs
    Philosophical Perspectives 7 397-410. 1993.
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    Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race
    with David B. Wilkins and Amy Gutmann
    Princeton University Press. 1996.
    In America today, the problem of achieving racial justice--whether through "color-blind" policies or through affirmative action--provokes more noisy name-calling than fruitful deliberation. In Color Conscious, K. Anthony Appiah and Amy Gutmann, two eminent moral and political philosophers, seek to clear the ground for a discussion of the place of race in politics and in our moral lives. Provocative and insightful, their essays tackle different aspects of the question of racial justice; together …Read more
  • Identidade Racial E Identificação Racial
    with Gizele dos Santos Belmon
    Griot 2 (2): 129-141. 2010.
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    The Limits of Being Liberal
    Philosophia Africana 8 (2): 93-97. 2005.
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    The Ethics of Identity
    Philosophy 81 (317): 539-542. 2006.
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    In defence of honour
    The 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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    Liberalism and the Plurality of Identity
    In N. Cloete, M. W. Makgoba & D. Ekong (eds.), Knowledge, Identity and Curriculum Transformation in Africa, Maskew Miller Longman. pp. 79-99. 1997.
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    The Uncompleted Argument: Du Bois and the Illusion of Race
    In Henry Louis Gates Jr (ed.), Race, Writing and Difference, University of Chicago Press. pp. 21--37. 1986.
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    Preface
    In As If: Idealization and Ideals, Harvard University Press. 2017.
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    This 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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    Misunderstanding cultures: Islam and the West
    Philosophy and Social Criticism 38 (4-5): 425-433. 2012.
    This article aims to explain why the idea of the West is, for historical and philosophical reasons, an obstacle to dealing with the dangers posed by radical Islamists. Every proposed theory of the West has to account for the great internal cultural diversity both of European cultures and of those influenced by them around the world; and every serious historical account both of Europe and of Islam has to recognize the long-standing, substantial and ongoing interdependence of their intellectual an…Read more