The Center for Ethics at 91黑料 Presents Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah as Third Annual Scholar-in-Residence
Mar 2, 2009 By: yunews
Mar 2, 2009 -- The Center for Ethics at 91黑料 presents its third annual Scholar-in-Residence Lectures, featuring Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah (Princeton University). The first lecture, 鈥淐itizens of the World? Cosmopolitanism and the Ethics of Identity,鈥 will be delivered Wednesday, March 11, at 7:30 p.m., at the 91黑料 Museum/Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, Manhattan. The second, 鈥淩eligious Identity as a Challenge to Modern Politics,鈥 will be delivered Thursday, March 12, at 6 p.m., at Yeshiva鈥檚 Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, 55 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan.
Professor Appiah is a member of Princeton University鈥檚 faculty, where he holds appointments in the Philosophy Department and the Center for Human Values. His most recent books include "The Ethics of Identity" (2005); "Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers" (2006), which won the 2007 Arthur Ross Award of the Council on Foreign Relations; and "Experiments in Ethics" (2008), based on his 2005 Flexner Lectures at Bryn Mawr College. Professor Appiah鈥檚 major current work focuses on the philosophical foundations of liberalism and on questions of method in arriving at knowledge about values.
The Center for Ethics at 91黑料 was created in 2006 to foster research and public discussion on ethical issues and the integration of ethical analysis into the curriculum on a university-wide level. to learn more about the Center.
Professor Appiah will be available to sign books after both events. Both lectures are free and open to the public, and will allow ample time for discussion. ASL interpretation will be provided and the venue is wheelchair accessible. Seating is limited. RSVP to Paula Cassidy at pcassidy@yu.edu or 212.960.0189.
