В настоящее время является профессором философии Принстонского университета.
Публикации (английский язык)
Книги
- Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers. New York: W.W. Norton, 2006. (Trad. esp.: Cosmopolitismo. La ?tica en un mundo de extra?os, Buenos Aires/Madrid, Katz editores S.A, 2007, ISBN 9788496859081)
- Necessary Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy. New York: Prentice-Hall/Calmann & King, 1989.
- For Truth in Semantics. Oxford: Blackwell’s, 1986.
- Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race. With Amy Gutman, introduction by David Wilkins. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996.
- Africana: The Concise Desk Reference. edited with H.L. Gates Jr. Philadelphia: Running Press, 2003.
- Thinking It Through: An Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
- The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen. New York: W.W. Norton, 2010
- The Ethics of Identity Princeton University Press, 2005. (Trad. esp.: La ?tica de la identidad, Buenos Aires/Madrid, Katz editores S.A, 2007, ISBN 9788493543242)
- In My Father’s House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture. London: Methuen, 1992; New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
- Bu Me B?: The Proverbs of the Akan. With Peggy Appiah, and with the assistance of Ivor Agyeman-Duah. Accra: The Center for Intellectual Renewal, 2002.
- Kosmopolitische Patriotismus. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 2002.
- Experiments in Ethics. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008.
- Assertion and Conditionals. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
- Mi cosmopolitismo, Buenos Aires/Madrid, Katz editores S.A, 2008, ISBN 9788496859371 (En coedici?n con el Centro de Cultura Contempor?nea de Barcelona)
Романы
- Another Death in Venice: A Sir Patrick Scott Investigation. London: Constable, 1995.
- Avenging Angel. London: Constable, 1990; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991.
- Nobody Likes Letitia. London: Constable, 1994.
Редакторские издания
- Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African-American Experience. Ed. with Henry Louis Gates Jr. New York: Basic-Civitas, 1999.
- Identities. Ed. with Henry Louis Gates Jr. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1995.
- Ann Petry: Critical Perspectives Past and Present. Ed. with Henry Louis Gates Jr. Amistad Literary Series. New York: Amistad Press, 1994.
- Frederick Douglass: Critical Perspectives Past and Present. Ed. with Henry Louis Gates Jr. Amistad Literary Series. New York: Amistad Press, 1994.
- Chinua Achebe: Critical Perspectives Past and Present. Ed. with Henry Louis Gates Jr. Amistad Literary Series. New York: Amistad Press, 1993.
- Toni Morrison: Critical Perspectives Past and Present. Ed. with Henry Louis Gates Jr. Amistad Literary Series. New York: Amistad Press, 1993.
- Encarta Africana. Ed. with Henry Louis Gates Jr. Redmond, Washington: Microsoft, 1999.
- Richard Wright: Critical Perspectives Past and Present. Ed. with Henry Louis Gates Jr. Amistad Literary Series. New York: Amistad Press, 1993.
- Langston Hughes: Critical Perspectives Past and Present. Ed. with Henry Louis Gates Jr. Amistad Literary Series. New York: Amistad Press, 1993.
- Encarta Africana 2000. Ed. with Henry Louis Gates Jr. Redmond, Washington: Microsoft, 1999.
- Early African-American Classics. (edited with an introduction) New York: Bantam, 1990.
- Gloria Naylor: Critical Perspectives Past and Present. Ed. with Henry Louis Gates Jr. Amistad Literary Series. New York: Amistad Press, 1993.
- Alice Walker: Critical Perspectives Past and Present. Ed. with Henry Louis Gates Jr. Amistad Literary Series. New York: Amistad Press, 1993.
- A Dictionary of Global Culture. Ed. with Henry Louis Gates Jr. New York: Knopf, 1996.
- Zora Neale Hurston: Critical Perspectives Past and Present. Ed. with Henry Louis Gates Jr. Amistad Literary Series. New York: Amistad Press, 1993.
- The Poetry of our World: An International Anthology of Contemporary Poetry. Ed. by Jeffrey Paine with Kwame Anthony Appiah, Sven Birkerts, Joseph Brodsky, Carolyn Forch?, and Helen Vendler (Edited and introduced African section.) New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2000.
- Buying Freedom: The Ethics and Economics of Slave Redemption Ed. by Martin Bunzl and Kwame Anthony Appiah, with an introduction by Kevin Bales. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007.