Anthony Sean Neal

{{Short description|American philosophy professor}}

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|alma_mater = {{unbulleted list|Morehouse College|Mercer University|Clark Atlanta University}}

|school_tradition = Process philosophy, continental philosophy

|main_interests = Aesthetics, African American philosophy, African American philosophy of religion, critical theory, political philosophy

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|institutions = Mississippi State University

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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.{{cite web |last1=Neal |first1=Anthony |title=Award Winners |url=https://www.msstate.edu/newsroom/article/2021/12/msu-college-arts-and-sciences-announces-2021-faculty-award-winners |website=MSU College of Arts and Sciences announces 2021 faculty award winners |date=9 December 2021 |publisher=Mississippi State University |access-date=10 December 2021}} 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.{{cite web |last1=Neal |first1=Anthony |title=Fellows |url=https://americanphilosophy.net/fellows |website=AIPCT FELLOWS |access-date=10 December 2021}} Neal is also an American Philosophical Association Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh, UK.{{Cite web|url=https://www.apaonline.org/page/2022prizes-s#edinburgh|title=2022 APA Prizes: Spring Edition - The American Philosophical Association|website=www.apaonline.org}} He is also a Fellow of the Shackouls Honors College.{{cite web |last1=Neal |first1=Anthony |title=Faculty |url=https://www.honors.msstate.edu/about/faculty-staff/ |website=Shackouls Honors College Fellows |access-date=10 December 2021}} He is a 2019 inductee into the Morehouse College Collegium of Scholars.{{cite web|url=https://www.msstate.edu/newsroom/article/2019/05/msus-neal-inducted-morehouse-colleges-mlk-jr-collegium-scholars|title=MSU's Neal inducted into Morehouse College's MLK Jr. Collegium of Scholars|website=Mississippi State University|date=9 May 2019}} 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.{{cite web |title=Faculty & Staff - [ Faculty - Dr. Anthony Neal ] |url=https://www.philosophyandreligion.msstate.edu/faculty/neal.php |website=Mississippi State University}} Neal is a specialist on the philosophy of Howard Thurman and the Modern Era of the African American Freedom Struggle (1896-1975).{{Cite book|title=Common Ground: A Comparison of the Ideas of Consciousness in the Writings of Howard Thurman and Huey Newton|first=Anthony|last=Neal|date=1 July 2015|publisher=Africa World Press, Inc.|isbn = 978-1592219971}}{{cite book | url=https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781793640512/Philosophy-and-the-Modern-African-American-Freedom-Struggle-A-Freedom-Gaze | title=Philosophy and the Modern African American Freedom Struggle: A Freedom Gaze }}{{cite web|url=https://1000wordphilosophy.com/2021/02/16/african-american-existentialism/|title=African American Existentialism: DuBois, Locke, Thurman, and King|website=1000wordphilosophy|date=16 February 2021 }} Neal is also a past president of the Mississippi Philosophical Association.{{cite web|url=http://www.olemiss.edu/orgs/mpa/|title=Mississippi Philosophical Association|website=University of Mississippi}}

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