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PHILOSOPHER

Kwame Anthony Appiah

1954 - Today

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Kwame Akroma-Ampim Kusi Anthony Appiah ( AP-ee-ah; born 8 May 1954) is a British American philosopher and writer who has written about political philosophy, ethics, the philosophy of language and mind, and African intellectual history. Appiah was the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, before moving to New York University (NYU) in 2014. He holds an appointment at the NYU Department of Philosophy and NYU's School of Law. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kwame Anthony Appiah has received more than 918,592 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Kwame Anthony Appiah is the 1,155th most popular philosopher (down from 1,076th in 2019), the 5,298th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,941st in 2019) and the 94th most popular British Philosopher.

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  • 21

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  • 2.12

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  • 3.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Kwame Anthony Appiah ranks 1,155 out of 1,081Before him are Leonard Peikoff, Yuval Steinitz, Paul Churchland, Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock, Christine Korsgaard, and Richard Crashaw. After him are Stephen Walt, Will Kymlicka, Julia Annas, Alex Callinicos, N. T. Wright, and Colin McGinn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Kwame Anthony Appiah ranks 527Before him are Daina Taimiņa, Kimmy Robertson, James Gleick, Brian Teacher, Peter Mueller, and Enzo Moavero Milanesi. After him are D. W. Moffett, Andrea Gyarmati, Sandra Cisneros, Marek Kusto, Djimrangar Dadnadji, and George Galloway.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Kwame Anthony Appiah ranks 5,298 out of 7,765Before him are John Curry (1949), Brian Cox (1968), Gillian Gilbert (1961), Martin Atkinson (1971), Cleo Laine (1927), and John Waite (1952). After him are Mary Rand (1940), Raquel Cassidy (1968), Arthur Owen (1915), Ann Sidney (1944), Jonny Evans (1988), and Alex McLeish (1959).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In United Kingdom

Among philosophers born in United Kingdom, Kwame Anthony Appiah ranks 94Before him are Mary Midgley (1919), Nick Land (1962), James Dunn (1939), Dugald Stewart (1753), Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock (1924), and Richard Crashaw (1612). After him are N. T. Wright (1948) and Colin McGinn (1950).