Anthony Sean Neal

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Anthony Sean Neal is an American philosophy professor and author. In 2021, Neal was awarded the title Beverly B. and Gordon W. Gulmon Dean's Eminent Scholar.[1] Neal is an author and professor of philosophy at Mississippi State University. Neal is a Fellow of the American Institute of Philosophical and Cultural Thought.[2] Neal is also an American Philosophical Association Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh, UK.[3] He is also a Fellow of the Shackouls Honors College.[4] He is a 2019 inductee into the Morehouse College Collegium of Scholars.[5] Neal received his master's degree at Mercer University and his doctorate in humanities with a concentration in African American Philosophy and Religion from Clark Atlanta University. His main research areas include Aesthetics, Africana Philosophy (African American Modern Era, NeoClassical African Philosophy), Critical Theory, Neo-Platonism, Philosophy of Religion.[6] Neal is a specialist on the philosophy of Howard Thurman and the Modern Era of the African American Freedom Struggle (1896-1975).[7][8][9] Neal is also a past president of the Mississippi Philosophical Association.[10] [11]

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Main interestsAesthetics, African American philosophy, African American philosophy of religion, critical theory, political philosophy
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Anthony Sean Neal
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SchoolProcess philosophy, continental philosophy
InstitutionsMississippi State University
Main interestsAesthetics, African American philosophy, African American philosophy of religion, critical theory, political philosophy
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Selected publications

  • Common ground: A Comparison of the Ideas of Consciousness in the Writings of Howard W Thurman and Huey P. Newton (2015)[12]
  • Howard Thurman's Philosophical Mysticism: Love Against Fragmentation (2019)[13]
  • Philosophy and the Modern Era of the African American Freedom Struggle: A Freedom Gaze, (Lanham, MD: Lexington Press, 2022)[8]
  • Crimes Against Humanity in the Land of the Free: Can a Truth and Reconciliation Process Heal Racial Conflict in America? (2014)
  • (R) evolutions of Consciousness in Thurman and Newton: Anthony Neal, Author of Common Ground, Meets Critics Dwayne A. Tunstall and Felipe Hinojosa The Acorn 17 (1), 61-77 (2017)
  • Howard Thurman's Mystical Logic: Creatively Encountering Oneness–A Logical Analysis of Thurman's Theology Black Theology 15 (3), 224-244 (2017)
  • Connecting the Ideological Lineage: From W.E.B. Du Bois to Huey P. Newton, Journal of Pan African Studies 9 (4), 32-46 (2016)
  • What Is Philosophy and What Is Its Purpose in Freemasonry?, Phylaxis 53 (4), 17-18 (2016)
  • Imposing Morality: Cultural Perspectives on Truth, Apologies, and Forgiveness in the United States

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