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Show Adrian Margaret Smith Piper (b. 1948) is an analytic philosopher and first-generation Conceptual artist. She did a B.A. in Philosophy at CCNY, an M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy at Harvard with John Rawls, and studied Kant and Hegel with Dieter Henrich at the University of Heidelberg. The first tenured African American woman professor in the field of academic philosophy, Piper taught philosophy at Georgetown, Harvard, Michigan, Stanford, UCSD and Wellesley. In 2012, on her 64th birthday, Piper publicly retired from being black. She has studied and practiced yoga since 1965. She lives in Berlin, where she runs the APRA Foundation Berlin and edits The Berlin Journal of Philosophy. |
