Sidling Up to Difference with Kwame Anthony Appiah [On Being]

Sidling Up to Difference with Kwame Anthony Appiah

March 24, 2011

Our Civil Conversations Project continues with the Ghanaian-British-American philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah. His parents' marriage helped inspire the movie Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. He's studied ethics in a world of strangers and how unimaginable social change happens. We explore his erudite yet down-to-earth take on disarming moral hostilities in America now.

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Participants engage in the Human Library project at the Toronto Public Library.

(photo: Voula Monoholias)

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» Unedited Interview with Kwame Anthony Appiah
(mp3, 99:41)

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About the Image

Participants engage in the Human Library project at the Toronto Public Library.
(photo: Voula Monoholias)

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Kwame Anthony Appiah
Appiah is Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. His books include Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers and The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen.