Podcast Episodes featuring Kwame Anthony Appiah

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Kwame Anthony Appiah on Pictures of the World

Conversations with Tyler - July 31, 2019 12:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratings
Born to a Ghanaian father and British mother, Kwame Anthony Appiah grew up splitting time between both countries — and lecturing in many more — before eventually settling in America, where he now teaches philosophy at New York University. This, along with a family scattered across half-a-dozen c...

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Rethinking Identity with Kwame Anthony Appiah

Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast - March 12, 2019 07:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 7.6K ratings
There’s a reason we keep revisiting identity on WITHpod. From Brittney Cooper to Alex Wagner to Michael Tesler to Amy Chua and on, it’s a topic worth circling back to because it’s one of the most fundamental axes of conflict in our society today. Identities themselves are as old as we as a speci...

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At Liberty Live! Kwame Anthony Appiah on Identity and the Law

At Liberty - February 07, 2019 08:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 535 ratings
As part of the "Night of Philosophy and Ideas," renowned philosopher and NYT Ethicist columnist Kwame Anthony Appiah joined host Emerson Sykes — and a live audience! — to discuss identity, ethics, and the law. The event was hosted by the Brooklyn Public Library and the Cultural Services of the Fr...

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Rethinking Identity with Kwame Anthony Appiah

LARB Radio Hour - November 16, 2018 06:19 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 120 ratings
Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah talks with host Eric Newman about his new book The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity. Appiah tackles questions of cultural appropriation, how we come to feel that we possess our various identities, and why it is past time that we start restructuring our relatio...

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Mistaken Identities: The Conflict Over Culture, Class, Gender and Nation with Kwame Anthony Appiah and John Gray

Intelligence Squared - October 19, 2018 08:09 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 690 ratings
Race, religion and identity are being talked about as never before. While minority groups raise their voices for recognition and inclusion, others feel that their culture is being eroded. In these increasingly febrile times, Intelligence Squared brought together two of the world’s most prominent ...

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Kwame Anthony Appiah - 17 March 2015 - Cosmopolitanism: In conversation with Ash Amin

CRASSH - March 19, 2015 13:21 - 58 minutes - Video ★★★ - 1 rating
CRASSH Mellon CDI Visiting Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah (New York University) in conversation with Professor Ash Amin (University of Cambridge). Abstract “Cosmopolitanism” is an ancient idea – that we are – or should aspire to be –citizens of the world and not merely beholden to a local commu...

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Kwame Anthony Appiah — Sidling Up to Difference: Social Change and Moral Revolutions

On Being with Krista Tippett - August 15, 2013 16:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratings
How can unimaginable social change happen in a world of strangers? Kwame Anthony Appiah is a philosopher who studies ethics and his parents’ marriage helped inspire the movie “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.” In a tense moment in American life, he has refreshing advice on simply living with diffe...

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[Unedited] Kwame Anthony Appiah with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett - August 15, 2013 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratings
Krista Tippett’s unedited interview with Kwame Anthony Appiah was recorded in 2011 and is included in our show, “Kwame Anthony Appiah — Sidling Up to Difference.” See more at http://onbeing.org/program/sidling-difference/175

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Experimental philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah

Notebook on Cities and Culture - April 05, 2008 06:25 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 124 ratings
A conversation about experimental philosophy with Kwame Anthony Appiah, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University and author of Experiments in Ethics.

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Cosmopolitanism - Ethics in a World of Strangers with Kwame Anthony Appiah

Black History (Audio) - March 13, 2006 21:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratings
With the publication of 1992’s In My Father’s House, Kwame Anthony Appiah claimed his place at the forefront of African-American literary and cultural studies. A professor of philosophy at Princeton, he discusses how Western intellectuals and leaders have exaggerated the power of difference while...

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Cosmopolitanism - Ethics in a World of Strangers with Kwame Anthony Appiah

Black History (Video) - March 13, 2006 21:00 - 59 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 47 ratings
With the publication of 1992’s In My Father’s House, Kwame Anthony Appiah claimed his place at the forefront of African-American literary and cultural studies. A professor of philosophy at Princeton, he discusses how Western intellectuals and leaders have exaggerated the power of difference while...

Books written by Kwame Anthony Appiah

The Ethics of Identity
Kwame Anthony Appiah

1 Episode - 358 pages - ★★★★ - 208 ratings