1. Kwame Anthony Appiah, a Fellow of the American Academy since 1995, is Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. His publications include “Assertion and Conditionals” (1985), “In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture” (1992), “The Ethics of Identity” (2005), and, most recently, “Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers” (2006).