Anthony Sean Neal

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Anthony Sean Neal
Alma mater
SchoolProcess philosophy, continental philosophy
InstitutionsMississippi 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 an associate 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]

Selected publications[edit]

  • 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

References[edit]

  1. ^ Neal, Anthony (December 9, 2021). "Award Winners". MSU College of Arts and Sciences announces 2021 faculty award winners. Mississippi State University. Retrieved December 10, 2021.
  2. ^ Neal, Anthony. "Fellows". AIPCT FELLOWS. Retrieved December 10, 2021.
  3. ^ "2022 APA Prizes: Spring Edition - The American Philosophical Association". www.apaonline.org.
  4. ^ Neal, Anthony. "Faculty". Shackouls Honors College Fellows. Retrieved December 10, 2021.
  5. ^ "MSU's Neal inducted into Morehouse College's MLK Jr. Collegium of Scholars". Mississippi State University. May 9, 2019.
  6. ^ "Faculty & Staff - [ Faculty - Dr. Anthony Neal ]". Mississippi State University.
  7. ^ Neal, Anthony (July 1, 2015). Common Ground: A Comparison of the Ideas of Consciousness in the Writings of Howard Thurman and Huey Newton. Africa World Press, Inc. ISBN 978-1592219971.
  8. ^ a b Philosophy and the Modern African American Freedom Struggle: A Freedom Gaze.
  9. ^ "African American Existentialism: DuBois, Locke, Thurman, and King". 1000wordphilosophy. February 16, 2021.
  10. ^ "Mississippi Philosophical Association". University of Mississippi.
  11. ^ Team, ITS Web Development. "Mississippi Philosophical Association Conference". Mississippi State University.
  12. ^ "Neal, Anthony Products - Africa World Press & The Red Sea Press". africaworldpressbooks.com.
  13. ^ Neal, Anthony Sean (September 2, 2017). "Howard Thurman's Mystical Logic: Creatively Encountering Oneness – A Logical Analysis of Thurman's Theology". Black Theology. 15 (3): 224–244. doi:10.1080/14769948.2017.1359008. S2CID 171554439.

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