Anthony Kelley

Welcome. I'm an assistant professor of philosophy and associate director of the Ethics Institute at Louisiana State University. I work mostly in theoretical and practical ethics. 

I'm married to Chasity, and we have two boys, Anthony (9) and Jackie (6). 

You can contact me at akelley [at] lsu.edu.

Recent activity:

• My paper, "A Theory of Prudential Alienation," is forthcoming in Oxford Studies in Metaethics.

• My paper, "The New Internalism About Prudential Value," is forthcoming in Philosophical Studies. 

• My paper, "What Should the Desire Theorist Say About Ill-Being?," is forthcoming in Mauro Rossi and Christine Tappolet's edited volume, Perspectives on Ill-Being, which is under contract with Oxford University Press. 

• In Feb. 2024, I won a $15,000 grant from the Life Worth Living Network of Yale Divinity School to develop a course, tentatively titled Human Flourishing in the Digital Age, exploring how recent and future advances in technology present both opportunities and challenges for human flourishing. 

• In Jan. 2024, I won a $7,500 grant from the Research & Creativity Support Fund of the LSU Provost's Fund for Innovation and Research to work on a paper, tentatively titled "Welfare Subjectivity," concerning the conditions for the capacity to be benefited and harmed.