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Appiah Wins Kluge Prize

Kwame Anthony Appiah, professor of philosophy and law at New York University, is the winner of the 2024 John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity. The Kluge Prize is awarded by the Library of Congress. It “recognizes and celebrates work of the highest quality and greatest impact that advances understanding of the human experience.” The prize is $500,000. It was endowed by entrepreneur John Kluge and awarded for the first time in 2003. The Library of Congress says: Appiah is… internationally recognized for his contributions to the study of philosophy as it relates to ethics, language, nationality, and race. Appiah also writes ‘The Ethicist’ in The New York Times Magazine, a feature that explores ethical approaches to solving interpersonal problems… Appiah is the author of more than a dozen books. These include academic studies of the philosophy of language, a textbook introduction to contemporary philosophy, and “In My Father’s House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture” (Oxford University Press, 1992), considered a canonical work in contemporary Africana studies… Appiah is the current President of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has served as President of the PEN America Center, a Member of the Advisory Board of the National Museum for African Art, as Chair of the Board of the American Council of Learned Societies, and as president of the Modern Language Association and of the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division. The New York Times reports: Appiah, 70, said in an interview that the variety [of topics he has written on] was thanks to figures like his longtime friend and scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. as well as the British philosopher Dorothy Emmet, who encouraged him to apply his analytic philosophy to whatever interested him. “Being trained in philosophy has helped me to answer these questions, but they’re not philosophers’ questions,” he said. “They’re questions anybody might have thinking about their lives.” A list of previous winners of the Kluge prize is here.
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