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Academic Profile

Academic Background: Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Cambridge, 1982; B.A. in Philosophy, University of Cambridge, 1975.

Research Interests: Philosophy of mind, moral philosophy, political philosophy, ethics, identity, and African intellectual history.

Appointments: Professor, Department of Philosophy and School of Law, New York University; Former Professor, Princeton University; President, American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Awards: National Humanities Medal, 2011; Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Publications: Author, Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (W.W. Norton, 2006); The Ethics of Identity (Princeton University Press, 2005).

Additional Contributions: Regular contributor to The New York Review of Books; Public lectures on ethics and identity globally.