Kwame Anthony Appiah
Professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University and author of The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity and Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers.
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Professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University and author of The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity and Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers.
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Against Meritocracy
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Being seen to be good
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Scars of History
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Ideas, identity and influence
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