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Biographical note
Kwame Anthony Appiah writes the Ethicist column for The New York Times Magazine. A professor of philosophy and law at New York University, he is the best-selling, award-winning author of The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity; Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers; The Ethics of Identity; and The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen.Kwame Anthony Appiah is a writer and thinker of remarkable range… Appiah writes very clearly, and much of this original and absorbing book will be of interest to general readers… Appiah has packed into this short book an impressive amount of original reflection on a number of topics… [A] rich and illuminating book.
- Thomas Nagel, New York Review of Books
Appiah is the rare public intellectual who is also a first-rate analytic philosopher, and the characteristic virtues associated with each of these identities are very much in evidence throughout the book.
- Thomas Kelly, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Following his practice of producing short, concise, well-written, thoughtful books of interest to a broad audience, Appiah again raises important questions.
- J. Gough, Choice
Appiah is absolutely right that the notion of idealization is both ripe and suitable for significant philosophical exploration. The subject has been central to political theory, epistemology, and philosophy of science. <i>As If: Idealization and Ideals</i> is the first book to explicitly combine and link all of the discussions in a very valuable—if controversial—contribution.
- Jason Stanley, Yale University,