{{Infobox Philosopher
|region     = Western Philosophy
|era        = Contemporary philosophy
|color      = #B0C4DE
|image_name = Kwame Anthony Appiah by David Shankbone.jpg
|name       = Kwame Anthony Appiah
|birth      = 1954
|school_tradition = Philosophy of Language, Cosmopolitanism
|main_interests   = Probabilistic Semantics, Moral Theory, race and identity theory
|notable_ideas    = 
|influences = Hegel, W.E.B. Du Bois, John Rawls, others
|influenced = 
}}

'''Kwame Anthony Appiah''' (born cultural theorist, and political and moral theory, the African intellectual history.

==Biography==

Appiah was born in Sir Stafford Cripps, a Labour Conservative MP before defecting to Labour.

==Career==
Appiah has taught philosophy and African and African-American studies at the Cambridge, Duke, Cornell, Yale, Harvard, and Princeton Universities. He is currently Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton (with a cross-appointment at the University Center for Human Values) and will serve as the Bacon-Kilkenny Professor of Law at Fordham University in the fall of 2008. Appiah also served on the board of PEN American Center, and was on a panel of judges for the PEN/Newman's Own Award. He is openly gay<ref> {{cite news
|url=http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2005/02/06/the_trouble_with_identity?pg=full
|publisher=Boston Globe
|title=Interview with Appiah
|date=February 6, 2005}} </ref> and lives with his partner, Henry Finder<ref> {{cite news
|url=http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i30/30a01001.htm
|publisher=The Chronicle of Higher Education
|title=Is Race Real? How Does Identity Matter?
|date=April 5, 2002}}</ref>, in a loft in Chelsea, Manhattan.

In English; among his later books are ''Colour Conscious'' (with Amy Gutmann), ''The Ethics of Identity'', which appeared in 2005, and ''Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers'' (2006). He has been a close collaborator with Henry Louis Gates Jr., together with whom he is an editor for ''Transition Magazine''. 

In 2008, Appiah published ''Experiments in Ethics'' (Harvard University Press), in which he reviews the relevance of empirical research to ethical theory.

===Ideas===

Appiah's early philosophical work dealt with probabilistic race and cosmopolitanist philosophical tradition, which stretches from German philosophers such as Hegel through W. E. B. DuBois and others. 

His fiction consists of drawing-room detective stories; none of his three novels has gained a wide audience.  The first, ''Avenging Angel'', set in the University of Cambridge, involved a murder among the Cambridge Apostles.  His second and third novels are ''Nobody Likes Letitia'' and ''Another Death in Venice''.

===Criticism of Afrocentric World View===
Appiah has been a critic of contemporary theories of Greece, then "its legacy of ethnocentrism is presumably one of our moral liabilities.<ref>Kwame Anthony Appiah, "Europe Upside Down: Fallacies of the New Afrocentrism." In: ''Perspectives on Africa'', ed. Richard Roy Grinker and Christopher B. Steiner (London: Blackwell Publishers, 1997):728-731.</ref> Appiah's critique of contemporary Afrocentrism has been strongly criticized by some of its leading proponents, such as Temple University African American Studies scholar and activist Molefi Asante [http://www.asante.net/articles/Appiah-fallacies.html] who has characterized Appiah's work as "anti-African".

thumb|Kwame Anthony Appiah<br><sup>foto:David Shankbone</sup> '''Kwame Anthony Appiah''' est un philosophe né en africaine. 

== Biographie == 
Anthony Appiah est né à Dorset, puis au Clare College de Cambridge où il a obtenu son doctorat en philosphie. Son père était Joe Appiah, homme politique et avocat ghanéen et sa mère Peggie Cripps, auteur de livres pour enfant dont le père était Stafford Cripps.

Il a enseigné la philosophie et les études africaines et afro-américaines à l’Duke, Cornell, Princeton. Il a aussi fait parti du comité du PEN American Center et a été l’un des juges du PEN/Newman’s Own. Il est ouvertement homosexuel<ref>{{cite news
|url=http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2005/02/06/the_trouble_with_identity?pg=full
|publisher=Boston Globe
|title=Interview with Appiah
|date=February 6, 2005
}}</ref> et vit en couple dans le quartier de Chelsea sur l’île de Manhattan.

Il a étroitement collaboré avec Henry Louis Gates fils avec qui il dirige le magazine Transition<ref>Voir Transision magazine sur Wikipedia en anglais</ref>.

En 1992 il publie ''In My Father’s House'', livre pour lequel il gagne le prix Herskovitz pour les études afro-américaines en anglais. Par la suite il publie ''Colour Conscious'' avec Amy Gutmann, ''The Ethics of Identity'' (2005) et ''Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers'' (2006).

Ses premiers travaux concernaient principalement la sémantique et la théorie du sens alors que les plus récents concernent les problèmes philosophiques de la race et du racisme, de l’identité et de l’axiologie. Ses trois romans sont des histoires policières qui n’ont pas suscité beaucoup d’intérêt : ''Avenging Angel'', ''Nobody Likes Letitia'' et ''Another Death in Venice''.

==Critiques==
Appiah a été fortement critiqué par Molefi Asante <ref> </ref> qui lui reproche d’être probablement "anti-Africain". 