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03/18/2004 12:25:50 PM Web Clip - Voices of Facing History Elijah Lapson
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K. Anthony Appiah, Ph.D., is currently on the faculty at Princeton University. Previously, he was professor of Afro-American studies and of philosophy and chair of the Committee on African Studies at Harvard University. Appiah’s philosophical work has been largely in the philosophy of language and of mind. His work in African and African-American Studies has focused on race, ethnicity, culture, and identity. Appiah has been chairman of the Joint Committee on African Studies of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies. He is currently an editor of Transition magazine, associate director of the Black Periodical Literature Project, president of the Society for African Philosophy in North America, and board member of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute.
Appiah is the author of several books. In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture (1992) was a 1992 New York Times Notable Book of the Year. It also received the Annisfield-Wolf Book Award and the African Studies Association's 1993 Herskovits Award, which is presented annually to the author of an outstanding original scholarly work published on Africa. Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race (1996), written by Appiah and Amy Gutmann, was named the 1998 Outstanding Book on the Subject of Human Rights in North America. It also won the American Political Science Association's 1997 Ralph J. Bunche Award and the 1996 North American Society for Social Philosophy Annual Book Award. Appiah is also the author of numerous articles; an introduction to analytic philosophy; two discourses on the philosophy of language; and three novels: Another Death in Venice, Nobody Likes Letitia, and Avenging Angel. He is co-editor with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., of The Dictionary of Global Culture (1996), which was later produced as the Encarta Africana CD-ROM, and several volumes of critical perspectives on African American writers. Appiah and Gates are now co-editing the Perseus Africana Encyclopedia.
Facing History and Ourselves Summer Institute (1995)
Professor K. Anthony Appiah discusses the value of the Facing History and Ourselves program’s ability to encourage students to think critically and engage in dialogue about complex moral questions.
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Thinking through historical examples and making comparisons across cultures is a very important part of learning to think about moral questions generally. And what I like about Facing History is that it manages to combine thinking about moral questions in different contexts with not being sort of flabbily relativist, not just saying, Well, the so-and-sos do this and the so-and-sos do that. I mean, they elicit from the young people serious moral responses to difficult moral questions and I think we need as much of that as we can get.
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