Anthony Sean Neal
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Anthony Sean Neal | |
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| Process philosophy, continental philosophy | |
| Institutions | Mississippi State University |
Main interests | Aesthetics, African American philosophy, African American philosophy of religion, critical theory, political philosophy |
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] In April of 2026, Neal was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa Society, the Gamma Chapter of Mississippi, as an honorary member at Mississippi State University.[6] 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.[7] Neal is a specialist on the philosophy of Howard Thurman and the Modern Era of the African American Freedom Struggle (1896-1975).[8][9][10] Neal is also a past president of the Mississippi Philosophical Association.[11] [12]
