K. Anthony Appiah joined the faculty of Princeton University in 2002 as Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values. He has taught at Yale, Cornell, Duke, and Harvard Universities and lectured at many other institutions in the United States, Germany, Ghana and South Africa, as well as at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. In addition to his current appointments at Princeton, he is associated with the Center for African American Studies, the Programs in African Studies and Translation Studies, and the Departments of Comparative Literature and Politics.
Appiah has published widely on topics ranging from semantics to African and African-American literary and cultural studies to philosophy of mind. His major current work has focused on the philosophical foundations of liberalism and on questions of method in arriving at knowledge about values. In 2008 he published Experiments in Ethics (Harvard University Press), in which he reviews the relevance of empirical research to ethical theory.