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Unlike the departures of West and Appiah??who say they left for personal reasons—this year’s exodus of professors can be primarily attributed to tenure decisions...
...West and K. Anthony Appiah??who was the Carswell Professor of African American Studies—moved from Harvard to Princeton University. Gates was also offered a position at Princeton, but eventually rejected...
...examines the tracks of the luminaries before him who have thought about identity, Appiah??s “traveling companion”—as he puts in the preface—is John Stuart Mill, the 19th century’s most influential liberal thinker. Mill’s philosophical framework becomes a sort of itinerary for Appiah??s journey...
...Appiah??s father was a Ghanaian independence leader; his mother, Peggy Cripps, was the daughter of a British knight. Of his own many identities—a U.S. citizen, an African-American, a gay man—Appiah refuses to prioritize any one in particular. Echoing his argument in “The Ethics of Identity,” Appiah told me he believes no identity should be “determinative of absolutely every choice” one has to make...
This direct approach to philosophy brought to mind Appiah??s most persuasive defense of his profession. He likened the process of reading and developing philosophy to admiring a great painting in a museum—its real claim to your attention is not its history or the greatness of its creator, but simply that very act, the “engagement,” of looking...