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SCHOLARLY BOOKS:
The Ethics of Identity. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, Forthcoming, Dec. 2004.
Thinking It Through: An Introduction to Contemporary
Philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Africana: The Concise Desk Reference. edited
with H.L. Gates Jr. Philadelphia, Running Press, 2003.
Kosmpolitische Patriotismus. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp,
2002.
Bu Me Bé: The Proverbs of the Akan.
With Peggy Appiah, and with the assistance of Ivor Agyeman-Duah.
Accra: The Center for Intellectual Renewal, 2002.
Na casa de meu pai: a África na filosofia da cultura.
(Brazilian Edition) Rio de Janeiro: Contraponto Editora, 1997.
Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race.
With Amy Gutman, introduction by David Wilkins. Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press, 1996.
In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy
of Culture. London: Methuen, 1992; New York: Oxford University
Press, 1992.
Necessary Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy. New York:
Prentice-Hall/Calmann & King, 1989.
For Truth in Semantics. Oxford: Blackwell's, 1986.
Assertion and Conditionals. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1985.

NOVELS (CRIME AND MYSTERY FICTION):
Another Death in Venice: A Sir Patrick Scott Investigation.
London: Constable, 1995.
Nobody Likes Letitia. London: Constable,
1994.
Avenging Angel. London: Constable, 1990;
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991.

BOOKS EDITED BY KWAME ANTHONY APPIAH
Early African-American Classics. (edited with an introduction)
New York: Bantam, 1990.
Langston Hughes: Critical Perspectives Past and Present.
Edited with H.L. Gates Jr. Amistad Literary Series. New York: Amistad
Press, 1993.
Zora Neale Hurston: Critical Perspectives Past and Present.
Edited with H.L. Gates Jr. Amistad Literary Series. New York: Amistad
Press, 1993.
Toni Morrison: Critical Perspectives Past and Present.
Edited with H.L. Gates Jr. Amistad Literary Series. New York: Amistad
Press, 1993.
Gloria Naylor: Critical Perspectives Past and Present.
Edited with H.L. Gates Jr. Amistad Literary Series. New York: Amistad
Press, 1993.
Alice Walker: Critical Perspectives Past and Present.
Edited with H.L. Gates Jr. Amistad Literary Series. New York: Amistad
Press, 1993.
Richard Wright: Critical Perspectives Past and Present.
Edited with H.L. Gates Jr. Amistad Literary Series. New York: Amistad
Press, 1993.
Chinua Achebe: Critical Perspectives Past and Present.
Edited with H.L. Gates Jr. Amistad Literary Series. New York: Amistad
Press, 1993.
Ann Petry: Critical Perspectives Past and Present. Edited
with H.L. Gates Jr. Amistad Literary Series. New York: Amistad Press,
1994.
Frederick Douglass: Critical Perspectives Past and Present.
Edited with H.L. Gates Jr. Amistad Literary Series. New York: Amistad
Press, 1994.
Identities. Edited with H.L. Gates Jr. Chicago: Chicago
University Press, 1995.
A Dictionary of Global Culture. Edited with H.L. Gates
Jr. New York: Knopf, 1996.
Encarta Africana. Edited with H.L. Gates Jr. Redmond,
Washington: Microsoft, 1999.
Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African-American
Experience. Edited with H.L. Gates Jr. New York: Basic-Civitas,
1999.
Encarta Africana 2000. Edited with H.L. Gates Jr. Redmond,
Washington: Microsoft, 1999.
The Poetry of our World: An International Anthology of Contemporary
Poetry Edited by Jeffrey Paine with Kwame Anthony Appiah, Sven
Birkerts, Joseph Brodsky, Carolyn Forché, and Helen Vendler
(Edited and introduced African section.) [New York] : HarperCollins
Publishers, ©2000.

SCHOLARLY ESSAYS & ARTICLES BY KWAME A.
APPIAH
“Immigrants and Refugees: Individualism and the Moral Status
of Strangers” Forthcoming in a volume on Michael Dummett
for the Library of Living Philosophers.
“Understanding reparations: a preliminary reflection”
Forthcoming in Cahiers d’ Etudes Africaine.
“How to Decide Between Concepts of the Person.” Forthcoming
in African Philosophy. Lee Brown (ed.); New York: Oxford
University Press, 2003.
“Race and IQ.” In History and Philosophy of Science
for African Undergraduates. Helen Lauer (ed.) Lagos: Hope Publishing,
2002.
Foreword to Paulin Hountondji The Struggle for Meaning. Translation
of Combat pour le sens (Trans.by John Conteh-Morgan). Athens,
Ohio: Ohio University Center for International Studies, 2002.
“États altérés,” Le Débat,
118, Janvier-Fevrier (2002) p. 18-33. (Translated by Pierre-Emmanuel
Dauzat).
“The State and the Shaping of Identity.” The Tanner
Lectures on Human Values, Vol. 23. Salt Lake City, Utah: University
of Utah Press, 2002.
“Stereotypes and the Shaping of Identity.” In Prejudicial
Appearances: The Logic of American Anti-Discrimination Law
by Robert C. Post, with K. Anthony Appiah, Judith Butler, Thomas
C. Grey, and Reva B. Siegel. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001.
p. 55-71.
“Grounding Human Rights.” In Human Rights As Politics
and Idolatry by Michael Ignatieff with commentaries by K. Anthony
Appiah, David Hollinger, Thomas W. Laqueur and Diane F. Orentlicher,
edited by Amy Gutmann. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.
p. 101-116.
“Philosophy and Literature.” Forthcoming in Companion
to African Philosophy Kwasi Wiredu (ed.).
“Context in Political Philosophy.” In Explorations
in African Political Thought : Identity, Community, Ethics.
Teodros Kiros (ed.) with a preface by K. Anthony Appiah. New York:
Routledge, 2001.
“African Identities.” Article15 in Race and Racism.
Bernard Boxill (ed.). New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
“Cosmopolitan Reading.” In Cosmopolitan Geographies:
New Locations in Literature and Culture. Vinay Dharwadker (ed.).
New York: Routledge, 2001. p. 197-227.
“Liberty, Individuality and Identity.” Critical
Inquiry 27.2 (Winter 2001) p.305-332.
Introduction to Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,
An American Slave & Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Frederick
Douglass and Harriet Jacobs. Modern Library Edition. New York:
Random House, 2000. p. xi-xvi.
“The Right to Write,” In Free Speak The Namibian.
ed. by Gwen Lister, (15th Anniversary magazine) Windhoek: The Free
Press of Namibia, August 2000.
“Wereldburgers?” In Kosmopolitisme, ed. by
Rob Rieman. Nexus Nummer 26, Tilburg: Nexus Institute, 2000) p.
59-85.
“African Literature: Old Voices and New” Correspondence:
An International Review of Culture and Society, No. 6 (Spring/Summer
2000) p. 35-36.
“Aufklärung und Dialog der Kulturen,” In Zukunftsstreit,
ed. by Wilhelm Krull. Weilerswist: Velbrück Wissenschaft, 2000.
p.305-328.
“Preface” to Albert Memmi Racism. Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press, 1999.
“Yambo Ouolouguem and the Meaning of Postcoloniality.”
In Yambo Ouologuem: Postcolonial Writer, Islamic Militant.
Christopher Wise (ed.) Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1999.
p.55-63.
“For Nurrudin Farah.” World Literature Today,
72:4 (Autumn 1998) p.703-705.
“Against National Culture.” English in Africa,
23:1 (May 1996) p.11-27.
“Reconstructing Racial Identities.” Research in
African Literatures, 27:3 (Fall 1996) p.58-72.
“Afterword: How Shall We Live As Many?” In Beyond
Pluralism: The Conception of Groups and Group Identities in America.
Wendy Katkin, Ned Landsman and Andrea Tyree (eds.) Urbana and Chicago:
University of Illinois Press, 1998. p.243-259.
“Old Gods, New Worlds.” In African Philosophy:
A Classical Approach. Parker English and Kibujo M. Kalumba
(eds.) Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1996. p.229-250.
“Ethnophilosophy and its Critics” In The African
Philosophy Reader. P.H. Coetzee and A. J. P. Roux (eds.) London
and New York: Routledge, 1998. p.109-130.
“Old Gods, New Worlds.” In The African Philosophy
Reader. P.H. Coetzee and A. J. P. Roux (eds.) London and New
York: Routledge, 1998. p.245-274.
“Naturalization in Theory and Practice: A Response to Charles
Kesler.” In Immigration and Citizenship in the 21st Century:
True Faith and Allegiance.
Noah M. Jedediah Pickus (ed.) New York: Rowman and Littlefield.
p. 41-48.
“Foreword” to Saskia Sassen Globalization and its
Discontents. New York: The New Press, 1998. p.xi-xv.
“Race, Pluralism and Afrocentricity” The Journal
of Blacks in Higher Education, 19 (Spring 1998) p.116-118.
“The Limits of Pluralism.” In Multiculturalism
and American Democracy. Arthur M. Melzer, Jerry Weinberger
and M. Richard Zinman (eds.). Lawrence: University of Kansas Press,
1998. p.37-54.
“Liberalism and the Plurality of Identity.” In Knowledge,
Identity and Curriculum Transformation in Africa. N. Cloete,
M.W. Makgoba and D. Ekong (eds.) Johannesburg: Maskew Miller Longman,
1997. p.79-99. Reprinted in Pretexts: Studies in Writing and
Culture, 6:2 (Nov. 1987). p.213-22.
“South African English Lessons.” Venue: An International
Literary Magazine, 1:1 1997. p.132-38.
“Cosmopolitan Patriots.” Critical Inquiry,
23 (Spring 1997) p. 617-39. Reprinted in Cosmopolitics: Thinking
and Feeling beyond the Nation. Pheng Cheah & Bruce Robbins
(eds.) p. 91-114. Translated as "Patriotas Cosmopolitas"
by Antonio Sérgio Alfredo Guimarães in Revista
Brasileira de Ciências Sociais. 13:36 (February 1998).
p.79-94.
“What is African Art?” New York Review of Books.
Vol. XLIV, No. 7 April 24, 1997 pp. 46-51. Reprinted as “The
Arts of Africa” in Ideas matter: Essays in Honour of Conor
Cruise O’Brien. Richard English and Joseph Morrison Skelly
(eds.) Dublin: Poolbeg, 1998. p.251-64.
“Preliminary Thoughts on Liberal Education.” New
Political Science. 39:39 (Winter/Spring 1997) p.41-62. Reprinted
in The Promise of Multiculturalism: Education and Autonomy in
the 21st Century. George Katsiaficas and Teodros Kiros (eds.)
New York and London: Routledge, 1998. p.34-55.
“Cosmopolitan Patriots.” In For Love of Country:
Debating the Limits of Patriotism. Josh Cohen (ed.) Boston:
Beacon Press, 1996. p.21-29.
“Only Connect: The Humanities in an Age of Information Overload.”
In Gateways to Knowledge: The Role of Academic Libraries in
Teaching, Learning, and Research. Larry Dowler (ed.) Cambridge:
MIT Press, 1996. p.35-39.
“Eine Rasse ist eine Familie.” Excerpted and translated
from Chapters 1 and 2 of In My Father's House by Bernhard
Veitenheimer. In the exhibition catalog Family, Nation, Tribe
Community SHIFT: Zeitgenössische künstlerische Konzepte
im Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Berlin: Neue Gesellschaft für
Bildende Kunst HGBK, 1996. p.133-137.
“Against National Culture.” In Text and Nation.
Peter Pfeiffer and Laura Garcia-Moreno (eds.) Columbia, SC: Camden
House, 1996. p.175-190.
“Race, Culture, Identity: Misunderstood Connections.”
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, No.17. Salt Lake City:
University of Utah Press, 1996. p.51-136.
“Around the World in Family Ways.” (Italian Title:
Il Giro Del Mondo in Famiglia.) Aspenia, Rivista Di
Aspen Institute Italia, 2:3, (September 1996) p.44-57.
“Against National Culture.” English in Africa,
23:1, (May 1996) p.11-27.
“Identity: Political not Cultural.” In Field Work:
Sites in Literary and Cultural Studies. Marjorie Garber, Rebecca
L. Walkowitz, Paul B. Franklin (eds.) New York: Routledge, 1997.
p.34-40.
“Introduction.” Part One: “Mass Media, Biography,
and Cultural Media” in The Seductions of Biography.
Mary Rhiel and David Suchoff (eds.) New York: Routledge, 1996. p.9-11.
“Why Africa? Why Art?” In the exhibition catalog Africa:
The Art of a Continent. Tom Phillips (ed.) London: Royal Academy,
1995. p.21-26. Reprinted in The Royal Academy Magazine,
48 (Autumn 1995) p.40-41; and in the exhibition catalog Africa:
The Art of a Continent: 100 Works of Power and Beauty. New
York: The Guggenheim Museum, 1996.
“Philosophy and Necessary Questions.” in Readings
in African Philosophy: An Akan Collection. Safro Kwame (ed.)
Washington, DC: University Press of America, 1995. p.1-22.
“Culture, Subculture, Multiculturalism: Educational Consequences.”
In Public Education in a Multicultural Society. Robert
Fullenwider (ed.) New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. p.65-89.
“Script Reading.” In the exhibition catalog Worlds
Envisioned: Alighiero e Boetti and Frédéric Bouabré
Lynne Cooke and André Magnin, Curators; Lynne Cooke and Karen
Kelly (eds.) New York: Dia Foundation for the Arts, 1995.
“Dal villagio allo Stato Mondo.” By Marina Astorlogo
and Biancamaria Bruno, introduction by Maurizio Viroli. Piccole
patrie, grande mondo. Milanin: I Libri di Reset, 1995. p.29-33.Translation
of “Loyalty to Humanity.” The Boston Review.
Vol. XIX No. 5, October/November 1994.
“Geist Stories.” In Comparative Literature in the
Age of Multiculturalism. Charlie Bernheimer (ed.) Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. p.51-57.
“Identity Against Culture: Understandings of Multiculturalism.”
Doreen B. Townsend Center Occasional Papers, 1: Avenali
Lecture, Commentators: Jorge Klor de Alva, David Hollinger, Angela
Harris. Berkeley: Doreen B. Townsend Center, 460 Stephens Hall,
The University of California, Berkeley Calif., 1994.
“Ancestral Voices.” In Salmagundi, 104:5 [Fall
1994-Winter 1995?] p.88-100. Reprinted in The New Salmagundi
Reader. Robert Boyers and Peggy Boyers (eds.) Syracuse, NY:
Syracuse University Press, 1996. p.122-34.
“Loyalty to Humanity.” The Boston Review.
Reply to Martha Nussbaum's essay “Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism.”
Vol. XIX No. 5, October/November 1994 p. 10.
“Identity, Authenticity, Survival: Multicultural Societies
and Social Reproduction.” In Multiculturalism: Examining
"The Politics of Recognition." An essay by Charles
Taylor, with commentary by Amy Gutmann (editor), K. Anthony Appiah,
Jürgen Habermas, Steven C. Rockefeller, Michael Walzer, Susan
Wolf. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994. p.149-164.
“Free Speech and the Aims of the University: Some Modest
Proposals.” In An Ethical Education. ed. by Mortimer
Sellers. Oxford: Berg Publishers, 1995. p. 143-161.
“Multiculturalism and Elementary Education.” In The
Challenge of Elementary Education: Shaping Common Values for Tomorrow's
Pluralistic World. A symposium at Grace Church School. Privately
published by: Grace Church School, 86 Fourth Avenue, New York, NY
10003, 1994.
“Myth, Literature and the African World.” In Wole
Soyinka: An Appraisal. edited by Adewale Maja-Pearce. London:
Heinemann, 1994. p.98-115.
“Preface” to Claude Sumner Classical Ethiopian
Philosophy. Los Angeles: Adey Publishing Company, 1994. p.
xi.
“Beyond Race: Fallacies of Reactive Afrocentrism.”
In The Skeptic, 2:4 p. 104-7. (Revised version of “Europe
Upside Down: Fallacies of the new Afrocentrism.” Times
Literary Supplement, February 12, 1993. p. 24-25.)
“Only Ifs.” In Philosophical Perspectives,
7: Language and Logic, 1993. Edited by James E. Tomberlin. Atascadero,
Calif.: Ridgeview Publishing Company, 1993. p. 397-410.
“Thick Translation.” Callaloo, 16:4(Fall,
1993) p. 808-819. Special issue on “Post-Colonial Discourse”
guest-edited by Tejumola Olaniyan.
“Foreword" for Art and Secret. In the exhibition catalog
Secrecy: African Art that Conceals and Reveals.
Mary H. Nooter (ed.). New York: Center for African Art, 1993.
“The Impact of African Studies on Philosophy.” With
V. Y. Mudimbe. In The Impact of African Studies on the Disciplines.
Edited by Robert Bates, V. Y. Mudimbe and Jean O'Barr. Chicago:
Chicago University Press, 1993. p.113-138.
“`No Bad Nigger': Blacks as the Ethical Principle in the
Movies.” In Media Spectacles. Marjorie Garber, Jann
Matlock, Rebecca Walkowitz (eds.). New York: Routledge, 1993.
“Object Lessons.” Voice Literary Supplement,
108 (September 1992) p. 11.
“African-American Philosophy?” Philosophical Forum.
Vol. XXIV, Nos. 1-3 (Fall-Spring 1992-93) p.1-24. Reprinted in African-American
Philosophical Perspectives and Philosophical Traditions, p.
11-34. John Pittman (ed.) New York: Routledge, 1997.
“African Identities.” In Constructions identitaires:
questionnements théoriques et études de cas.
Jean-Loup Amselle, Anthony Appiah, Shaka Bagayogo, Jean-Pierre Chrétien,
Jocelyne Dakhlia, Ernest Gellner, Richard LaRue, Valentin-Yves Mudimbe,
Jerzy Topolski, Fernande Saint-Martin sous la direction de Bogumil
Jewsiewicki et Jocelyn Létourneau Actes du Célat No.
6, Mai 1992. CÉLAT, Université Laval, 1992.
“Thought Police.” Voice Literary Supplement,
103 (February 1992) p. 14.
“Out of Africa: Topologies of Nativism.” Revised from
The Yale Journal of Criticism, 2.1, 1988 in The Bounds
of Race. Dominic LaCapra (ed.) Ithaca: Cornell University Press,
1991. p. 134-163.
“Words on the Occasion of the Retirement of Hans Panofsky.”
Passages, 2 (Late Fall, 1991) p. 4.
“Vital Signs.” Voice Literary Supplement,
99 (October 1991) Symposium on Postmodernism p. 18.
“Social Forces, `Natural' Kinds.” In Exploitation
and Exclusion: Race and Class in Contemporary US Society. Abebe
Zegeye, Leonard Harris and Julia Maxted (eds.) African Discourse
series 3. Oxford: Hans Zell, 1992. p. 1-13.
“Introductory Essay.” Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall
Apart. London: Everyman, 1992.
“Inventing an African Practice in Philosophy: Epistemological
Issues.” In The Surreptitious Speech: Présence
Africaine and the Politics of Otherness 1947-1987. V.Y. Mudimbe
(ed.) (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1992) pp. 227-237.
“Soyinka's Myth of an African World.” In Crisscrossing
Boundaries in African Literatures. Ken Harrow, Jonathan Ngaté
and Clarisse Zimra (eds.) Washington, DC: Three Continents Press
and the African Literature Association, 1991. p.11-24.
“Representations and Realism.” (Reply to Michael Devitt
“Aberrations of the Realism Debate.”) Philosophical
Studies, 61 (1991) p.65-74.
“Is the `Post' in `Postcolonial' the `Post' in `Postmodern?'”
Critical Inquiry, 17 (Winter, 1991) p.336-357. Reprinted
in Contemporary Postcolonial Theory: A Reader. Padmini
Mongia (ed.) New York, London, Sydney, Auckland: Arnold, 1996. p.55-71.
And in Dangerous Liaisons: Gender, Nation, & Postcolonial
Perspectives. Anne McClintock, Aamir Mufti, & Ella Shohat
(eds.) Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997 p.420-444.
Reprinted in Theory of the Novel. Michael McKeon (ed.)
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. p.882-899.
“Altered States.” The Wilson Quarterly, Vol.
XV, No. 1 (1991) p.19-32.
“New Literatures, New Theory?” Mtatu 7 Canonization
and Teaching of African Literatures. Raoul Granquist (ed.)
Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi B.V., 1990. p.57-90.
“But would that still be me? Notes on gender, `race,' ethnicity
as sources of identity.” The Journal of Philosophy,
Vol. LXXXVII, No. 10 (October 1990) p.493-499. Reprinted in Race,
Sex: Their Sameness, Difference and Interplay, Naomi Zack (ed.)
New York: Routledge, 1997. p.75-81.
“Alexander Crummell and the Invention of Africa.” The
Massachusetts Review, Vol. XXXI, No. 3 (Autumn, 1990) p.385-406.
“Tolerable Falsehoods: Agency and the Interests of Theory.”
In Consequences of Theory. Barbara Johnson & Jonathan
Arac (eds.) Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991 p.63-90.
“Racisms.” In Anatomy of Racism. David Goldberg
(ed.) Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, 1990. p.3-17. Reprinted
in Introduction to Philosophy: Classical and Contemporary Readings.
3rd. ed. John Perry and Michael Bratman (eds.) New York: Oxford
University Press, 1998.
“The Institutionalization of Philosophy.” In Proceedings
of the Mellon Fellows' Conference on Teaching. Bonnie S. McElhinny
(ed.) Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, 29.iii.1990.
“Race.” In Critical Terms for Literary Study.
Frank Lentricchia & Tom McLaughlin (eds.) Chicago University
Press, 1989. p. 274-287. Excerpted in The Place of Thought in
Writing. Van. E. Hillard and JuliAnna Smith (eds.) Needham
Heights, MA: Simon and Schuster, 1995. p.384-386.
“The Conservation of `Race.'” Black American Literature
Forum, 23, (Spring 1989) p.37-60.
“The Afro-American Novel Project: Finding, Databasing, and
Analyzing Texts.” With Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cynthia D.
Bond. Literary Research, 13, (winter 1988,) p.31-38.
“Out of Africa: Topologies of Nativism.” The Yale
Journal of Criticism, 2.1, (1988) p.153-178.
Reply to Cynthia Macdonald's review of Assertion and Conditionals.
Philosophical Books, Vol. XXVIII No. 4 (October, 1987)
p.199-205.
“Old Gods, New Worlds: Some Recent Work in the Philosophy
of African Traditional Religion.” In Contemporary Philosophy:
A New Survey, Vol. V, Guttorm Flo/istad (ed.) The Hague: Martinus
Nijhoff, 1987. p.207-234.
“`If' Again.” Analysis, 47, (1987) p. 193-199.
“Why Componentiality Fails: A Case Study.” Philosophical
Topics, 15.1, (1987) p. 23-45.
“A Long Way From Home: Richard Wright in the Gold Coast.”
In Richard Wright. Harold Bloom (ed.) New York: Chelsea
House, Modern Critical Views, 1987. p. 173-190. Reprinted in Richard
Wright: A Collection of Critical Essays. Arnold Rampersad (ed.)
New York: Prentice Hall, New Century Views, 1994. p.188-201.
“Racism and Moral Pollution.” Philosophical Forum,
Vol. XVIII, Nos. 2-3 (Winter-Spring, 1986-1987. p.185-202. Reprinted
in Collective Responsibility: Five Decades of Debate in Theoretical
and Applied Ethics. Larry May and Stacey Hoffman (eds.) New
York: Rowman and Littlefield, 1991. p.219-238.
“The Uncompleted Argument: Du Bois and the Illusion of Race.”
Critical Inquiry, 12, (Autumn 1985). Reprinted in “Race,”
Writing and Difference. Henry Louis Gates Jr. (ed.) Chicago:
Chicago University Press, 1986. p.2137. And in Overcoming Racism
and Sexism Linda A. Bell & David Blumenfeld (eds.) Lanham, Maryland:
Rowman and Littlefield, 1995. p.59-77.
“Are We Ethnic? The Theory and Practice of American Pluralism.”
Black American Literature Forum, 20 (Spring-Summer 1986)
p.209-224.
“Deconstruction and the Philosophy of Language.” Diacritics,
Spring 1986, p. 49-64
“The Importance of Triviality.” Philosophical Review,
95 (April 1986) p. 209-231.
“Truth Conditions: A Causal Theory.” In Language,
Mind and Logic, Thyssen Seminar Volume. Jeremy Butterfield
(ed.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. p.25-45.
“Verificationism and the Manifestations of Meaning.”
Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume, 59
(1985) p. 17-31.
“Soyinka and the Philosophy of Culture.” In Philosophy
in Africa: Trends and Perspectives. P.O. Bodunrin (ed.) Ile-Ife:
University of Ife Press, 1985. p.250-263.
“Generalizing the Probabilistic Semantics of Conditionals.”
Journal of Philosophical Logic, 13 (1985) p.351-372.
“An Argument Against Anti-realist Semantics.” Mind
93, (October 1984) p.559-565.
“Strictures on Structures: On Structuralism and African Fiction.”
(Revised version of “On structuralism and African fiction:
an analytic critique.” Black American Literature Forum,
15 (Winter 1981). In Black Literature and Literary Theory
Henry Louis Gates Jr. (ed.) London: Methuen, 1984. p.127-150.
“An Aesthetics for Adornment in some African Cultures.”
In the catalogue of the exhibition Beauty by Design: The Aesthetics
of African Adornment. New York: African-American Institute,
(Fall 1984) p.15-19.
“Anti-realism Unrealized.” Philosophical Quarterly,
34 (April 1984)p.85-103.
“Jackson on the Material Conditional.” Australasian
Journal of Philosophy, 62 (March 1984) p.77-81.
“Lewis on the Material Conditional.” International
Logic Review, 14 (June 1983) p.28-36.
“Conversation and Conditionals.” Philosophical
Quarterly, 32 (October 1982,) p.327-338.
“Structuralist Criticism and African fiction: an Analytic
Critique.” Black American Literature Forum, 15. 4
(Winter 1981) p.165-174.

ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES BY
KWAME ANTHONY APPIAH
“African Philosophy.” In The Routledge Encyclopedia
of Philosophy. Edward Craig (ed.) London: Routledge, book and
CD-ROM, 1998.
“African Ethical Systems.” In The Routledge Encyclopedia
of Philosophy. Edward Craig (ed.) London: Routledge, book and
CD-ROM, 1998.
“African Traditional Religions.” In The Routledge
Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Edward Craig (ed.) London: Routledge,
book and CD-ROM, 1998.
“Amílcar Cabral.” In The Routledge Encyclopedia
of Philosophy. Edward Craig (ed.) London: Routledge, book and
CD-ROM, 1998.
“Frantz Fanon.” In The Routledge Encyclopedia of
Philosophy. Edward Craig (ed.) London: Routledge, book and
CD-ROM, 1998.
“Pan-Africanism.” In The Routledge Encyclopedia
of Philosophy. Edward Craig (ed.) London: Routledge, book and
CD-ROM, 1998.
“Philosophy and the Study of Africa.” The Encyclopedia
of Sub-Saharan Africa. (Book and CD-ROM) New York: Simon and
Schuster, 1998.
“Africa.” In Encyclopedia of Ethics. Lawrence
C. Becker (ed.) New York: Garland, 1992. p.25-28.
“Anthropology.” In Encyclopedia of Ethics.
Lawrence C. Becker (ed.) New York: Garland, 1992. p.48-9.

REVIEWS BY KWAME ANTHONY APPIAH
“Into the Woods” Review: Nelson Mandela’s Favorite
African Folktales. Nelson Mandela (ed.) The New York Review
of Books, December 18 2003, Vol. L No 20.
“History of Hatred” Review: Racism: A Short History
b y George M. Fredrickson In The New York Times Book Review,
August 4 2002 p.11-12.
“What Garland Knew” Review: The Emperor of Ocean
Park by Stephen L. Carter The New York Review of Books,
June 27 2002, Vol. XLIX No 11, p. 4-6.
“Chaps in Timbuktu” Review: Thomas Hodgkin: Letters
from Africa 1947-1956. edited by Elizabeth Hodgkin and Michael
Wolfers in Times Literary Supplement July 6, 2001 p.30.
“Equality of What?” The New York Review of Books,
November 16 2000, Vol. XLVIII No. 7 p.63-68.
Review: The Mismeasure of Desire by Edward Stein. Journal
of Homosexuality, 42.1, (200) p.151-163.
Review: Two Faces of Liberalism by John Gray. New
York Times Book Review, October 29, 2000 p.26.
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