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30The 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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42Human Rights as Politics and IdolatryPrinceton University Press. 2001."These essays make a splendid book. Ignatieff's lectures are engaging and vigorous; they also combine some rather striking ideas with savvy perceptions about actual domestic and international politics.
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803RaceIn Frank Lentricchia & Thomas McLaughlin (eds.), Critical Terms for Literary Study, University of Chicago. pp. 274-87. 1989.
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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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41Is the 'Post' in 'Postcolonial' the 'Post' in 'Postmodern'?Critical Inquiry 17 (2): 336-57. 1991.
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2The Limits of PluralismIn 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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233. Political Ideals: Lessons from John RawlsIn As If: Idealization and Ideals, Harvard University Press. pp. 112-174. 2017.
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116More Experiments in EthicsNeuroethics 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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70What 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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85In defence of honourThe 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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1Sen's IdentitiesIn Kaushik Basu & Ravi Kanbur (eds.), Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen: Volume I: Ethics, Welfare, and Measurement and Volume Ii: Society, Institutions, and Development, Oxford University Press. 2008.
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5Philosophy and Necessary QuestionsIn Safro Kwame (ed.), Readings in African Philosophy: An Akan Collection, University Press of America. pp. 1-22. 1995.
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299Multiculturalism: Expanded Paperback EditionPrinceton 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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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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39Liberal Education: The United States ExampleIn Kevin McDonough & Walter Feinberg (eds.), Citizenship and Education in Liberal-Democratic Societies: Teaching for Cosmopolitan Values and Collective Identities, Oxford University Press. 2003.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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142Color Conscious: The Political Morality of RacePrinceton 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
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