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Kwame Anthony Appiah ( ; born May 8, 1954) is a philosopher, cultural theorist, and novelist whose interests include political and moral theory, the philosophy of language and mind, and African intellectual history. Kwame Anthony Appiah grew up in Ghana and earned a Ph.D. at Cambridge University. He was the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University,〔(Biography at Princeton University )〕 before moving to New York University in 2014.〔(NY Times: Noted Philosopher Moves to N.Y.U. — and Beyond By JENNIFER SCHUESSLER, NOVEMBER 26, 2013 ).〕 He currently holds an appointment at NYU’s Department of Philosophy and NYU's School of Law.〔(NYU Law welcomes renowned philosopher Kwame Appiah to the faculty )〕 ==Personal life and education== Appiah was born in London〔 to Enid Margaret Appiah, an art historian and writer, and Joe Emmanuel Appiah (born 16 November 1918), a lawyer, diplomat, and politician from the Asante region, once part of the British Gold Coast colony but now part of Ghana. For two years (1970–72) Joe Appiah was the leader of a new opposition party that was made by the country's three opposing parties, simultaneously he was the president of the Ghana Bar association. Between the years 1977 and 1978, he was Ghana's representative at the United Nations. He died on 8 July 1990 in an Accra hospital at the age of 71. Anthony Appiah was raised in Kumasi, Ghana, and educated at Bryanston School and Clare College, Cambridge, where he earned his BA (First Class) and Ph.D. in philosophy. Appiah has three sisters: Isobel, Adwoa and Abena. As a child, he also spent a good deal of time in England, staying with his grandmother Isobel, the Honourable Lady Cripps, widow of the English statesman the Right Honourable Sir Stafford Cripps. His family has a long political tradition: his maternal grandfather Sir Stafford was Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer (1947–50) under Clement Attlee. His great grandfather, Charles Cripps, 1st Baron Parmoor, was the Labour Leader of the House of Lords (1929–31) under Ramsay MacDonald; Parmoor had been a Conservative MP before defecting to Labour. Through his grandmother Isobel Cripps, Appiah is a descendant of John Winthrop and the New England Winthrop family as one of his ancestors, Robert Winthrop, was a Loyalist during the American Revolutionary War and migrated to England, becoming a distinguished Vice Admiral in the British Navy.〔 Howard, Joseph. Visitation of England and Wales, Volume 7. England, 1899, pages 150-151. 〕 〔 Stark, James. The loyalists of Massachusetts and the other side of the American Revolution. Boston, 1910, pages 426-429. 〕 Through Professor Appiah's father, a Nana of the Ashanti people, he is also a direct descendant of Osei Tutu, the warrior emperor of pre-colonial Ghana, whose reigning successor, the Asantehene, is a distant relative of the Appiah family. He lives with his husband, Henry Finder, in an apartment in Tribeca, and a home in Pennington, New Jersey.〔(Biography ), Kwame Anthony Appiah. Accessed February 15, 2011. "Professor Appiah has homes in New York city and near Pennington, in New Jersey, which he shares with his partner, Henry Finder, Editorial Director of the ''New Yorker'' magazine. (In Pennington, they have a small sheep farm.)"〕 Appiah has written about what it was like growing up gay in Ghana. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kwame Anthony Appiah」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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