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There was one question I really wanted to ask the philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah when I spoke to him over the phone last weekend: how do you convince the rest of us that what you do really matters...
Most arguments in life, Appiah says, “have hidden assumptions, hidden premises.” It is these premises and assumptions that philosophers examine and reexamine, in search of new truths. “Things get discovered if you go carefully over the tracks,” Appiah says...
...individuality is captured in the idea that each of us has to manage in the business of our own life, that it’s a grand thing to be doing, that there are ways to evaluate whether we had done it well or badly,” Appiah told a packed audience at the Harvard Book Store last Thursday night...
...standing room-only audience spilling out of the room at the Harvard Book Store where Appiah spoke, reflected his prominence in academic circles worldwide...
...Appiah rose to the post of African Studies Department chairman by the end of his 11 years at Harvard. But in a move that grabbed headlines around the nation, Appiah left Harvard three years ago to join Princeton’s star-studded philosophy faculty...