Kwame Anthony Appiah is Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and the Center for Human Values at Princeton University. His books include two monographs in the philosophy of language as well as the widely acclaimed In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture, Cosmopolitanism [Norton], and, with Amy Gutmann, Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race. He has also edited or co-edited many books, including (with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.) Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African-American Experience. His most recent book is Thinking It Through: An Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy.