UC Merced Humanities Lecture Series Debuts Thursday

Kwame Anthony Appiah, Princeton University philosophy professor and recipient of the National Humanities Medal, will deliver a public lecture at 4:30 p.m. Thursday in UC Merced's California Room.

Appiah will be the first speaker in the inaugural Distinguished Lecturer in the Humanities series, which will be an annual event. His talk is titled "For the Humanities."

He is an internationally renowned moral and political philosopher. He has written many award-winning books, including "The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen," "Experiments in Ethics," "The Ethics of Identity" and "Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers."

The lecture series is sponsored by UC Merced's Center for Research in the Humanities and Arts, along with the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts.