Welcome to Appiah-inspired conversation!

Who are we?
We are a philosophy class of about 15 undergraduates and Prof. Cate Sherron at Thomas More College in northern Kentucky, just outside Cincinnati. A few of us are majoring (or minoring) in philosophy, but the rest of us study a variety of subjects from political science and creative writing to biology and business. We are studying the contemporary philosopher, Kwame Anthony Appiah.  We've read three of his books:  Cosmopolitanism: ethics in a world of strangers; The Honor Code: How moral revolutions happen; and Color Conscious: The political morality of race.  We are interested in having meaningful conversations with friends with whom we disagree and with strangers in order to find common ground on topics like honor, cosmopolitanism, race, identity, values, and social justice.  Thank you for participating in our discussion.  (FYI: we aren't going to save or use these responses for anything other than informing our own practice about starting conversations and helping us think more deeply about the issues we've read about over this semester.  After the term ends, the blog will be permanently deleted.)

Who is Appiah?
That's Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah.  He is a contemporary American philosopher who teaches at NYU.  He writes The Ethicist column for the New York Times.  Here is Krista Tippet's interview with him for the radio show, On Being:  http://www.onbeing.org/program/sidling-difference/175