Kwame Anthony Appiah, one of America’s most celebrated philosophers, will speak about “Honor, Morality, and Revolution” at the University Forum.

Anthony Appiah thinks about how morality and identity shape our lives. He was the Laurence S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University before moving to New York University in 2014. He has written more than 20 books, both fiction and non-fiction, including Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers and The Lies That Bind. Cosmopolitanism argued against the accepted view that the world is divided among warring creeds and cultures, emphasizing the robust ties that connect people across religions and nations. The Lies That Bind challenged assumptions about how identities define us, transforming our thoughts about who and what “we” are. His most recent scholarship explores the moral life, the ways we think about religion, and the changing nature of work. In 2010, President Obama presented Appiah with the National Humanities Medal, and in 2022, he was elected President of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He currently pens the “Ethicist” column in the New York Times Sunday Magazine.

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