received his Ph.D., Cambridge in 1982. Since 2002 he has been Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor Of Philosophy at Princeton University. His interests include philosophy of mind and language, African and African-American intellectual history, and political philosophy. Among his books are Assertion and Conditionals (1985), For Truth in Semantics (1986), In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture (1992), Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race (with Amy Gutmann; 1996), and Thinking It Through: An Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy (2003); The Ethics of Identity will appear from Princeton University Press in the fall of 2004.