Anthony Neal

Overview

Summary:

Anthony Sean Neal is a Beverly B. and Gordon W. Gulmon Humanities Professor and Professor of Philosophy at Mississippi State University. He is a member of the Department of Philosophy and Religion and a Faculty Fellow in the Shackouls Honors College of Mississippi State University. He also has an affiliation with the Department of African American Studies. He is the 2022-2023 APA Edinburgh Fellow. He is a 2019 inductee into the Morehouse College Collegium of Scholars and a Fellow with the American Institute for Philosophical and Cultural Thought. Dr. Neal was also a Visiting Research Fellow for the Warburg Institute of the School for Advanced Studies at the University of London. Dr. Neal received his doctorate in Humanities from Clark Atlanta University.  He received his Masters degree from Mercer University and a Bachelors degree from Morehouse College. Dr. Neal is the author of three books: Common Ground: A Comparison of the Idea of Consciousness in the Writings of Howard Thurman and Huey Newton (Africa World Press, 2015); Howard Thurman’s Philosophical Mysticism: Love Against Fragmentation (Lexington, 2019); Philosophy and the Modern African American Freedom Struggle: A Freedom Gaze (Lexington, 2022, reviewed by CHOICE and nominated for the award in non-fiction from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters ). He is currently the Chair for the APA Committee on the Status of Blacks in Philosophy; Editor of APA Studies on Philosophy and the Black Experience; and Executive Director of Philosophy Born of Struggle. His current project looks at the philosophy of perception and the Black experience.”

Education:

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Humanities, Clark Atlanta University, 2012
• Master of Science (M.S.), Theology, Mercer University-Atlanta, 2005
• Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Religion, Morehouse College, 2001

Research interests:

African American Philosophy, African American Philosophy of Religion, Existentialism, Neo-Platonism, Philosophy of Religion, and Political Philosophy.