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LEXINGTON, Ky.\u2014The fall Kenan Lecture at Transylvania University will be delivered on Wednesday, October 20, by Kwame Anthony Appiah, Laurence S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University. The title of his presentation is \u201cCosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers.\u201d His book by the same title won the 2007 Arthur Ross Award from the Council on Foreign Relations.<\/p>\n
Cosmopolitanism is the name given to Appiah\u2019s new system of ethics, which examines competing philosophical claims of various civilizations on the one hand, and groundless moral relativism on the other. He then arrives at an ethics that celebrates our common humanity while offering practical ways of managing our differences.<\/p>\n
Appiah holds an appointment in Princeton\u2019s University Center for Human Values and is associated with the Center for African American Studies, the programs in African studies and translation studies and the departments of comparative literature and politics. He has taught at Yale, Cornell, Duke and Harvard. He joined the faculty of Princeton in 2002.<\/p>\n
Born in London, but raised in Ghana by his African father and English mother, he earned B.A. and Ph.D. degrees in philosophy from Clare College, Cambridge University. He is the author of numerous articles and books, notably \u201cColor Conscious: The Political Morality of Race\u201d (1996), \u201cThe Ethics of Identity\u201d (2005), \u201cCosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers\u201d (2006) and \u201cExperiments in Ethics\u201d (2008).<\/p>\n