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Anthony Sean Neal is an author and philosophy professor at Mississippi State University. He is the first African-American ever to teach in the department of philosophy's history at Mississippi State University. Neal received his masters 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. Neal is a specialist on the philosophy of Howard Thurman and the Modern Era of the African American Freedom Struggle (1896-1975). Dr. Neal is also a past president of the Mississippi Philosophical Association.

Selected publications

 * Common ground: a comparison of the ideas of consciousness in the writings of Howard W Thurman and Huey P. Newton (2012)
 * Crimes Against Humanity in the Land of the Free: Can a Truth and Reconciliation Process Heal Racial Conflict in America? (2014)
 * Howard Thurman's Philosophical Mysticism: Love Against Fragmentation (2019)
 * (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