Kwame Anthony Appiah, Silver Professor of Philosophy and Law at NYU, grew up in Ghana, and was educated at Cambridge University, where he received baccalaureate and doctoral degrees in philosophy. He taught earlier at the University of Ghana, Cambridge, Yale, Cornell, Duke, Harvard, and Princeton. His books include In My Father’s House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture, The Ethics of Identity, Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers, The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen, and The Lies that Bind: Rethinking Identity. Professor Appiah is President of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.