Anthony Sean Neal Explained

Anthony Sean Neal
School Tradition:	Process philosophy, continental philosophy
Main Interests:	Aesthetics, African American philosophy, African American philosophy of religion, critical theory, political philosophy
Institutions:	Mississippi State University

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

• 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

Notes and References

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