THE MARY FLEXNER LECTURES OF BRYN MAWR COLLEGE

Experiments in Ethics

Kwame Anthony Appiah

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$23.00 • £18.95 • €20.50

ISBN 9780674034570

Publication Date: 03/30/2010

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288 pages

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches

The Mary Flexner Lectures of Bryn Mawr College

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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.

Awards & Accolades

Kwame Anthony Appiah Is a 2011 National Humanities Medal Winner

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