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 (10) and Jackie (7). We live in the Laville Honors House at LSU, as I am currently serving a two-year term as Faculty-in-Residence.

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

Recent activity:

• I will give an invited talk at the Southern Workshop on the Ethics of Emerging Technologies (SWEET), which will take place April 2-3, 2026, at the Jean Beer Blumenfeld Center for Ethics at Georgia State University. Title TBA. 

• I will give an invited talk as part of the Scott and Heather Kleiner Lecture Series at the University of Georgia on February 19, 2026. Title TBA. 

• I commented on Nikki Fortier's (Cornell) paper, "How the Attention-Demandingness of Pain Favors Felt-Quality Accounts," at the Syracuse Philosophy Annual Workshop and Network (SPAWN), which occurred July 15-17, 2025.  

• I commented on Brad Cokelet's (Kansas) paper, "Modern Welfarism and Modern Objective Flourishing," at the Kansas Workshop on Well-Being (KWOW) in Lawrence, Kansas on June 17, 2025. 

• My paper, "A Theory of Prudential Alienation," was recently published in Oxford Studies in Metaethics.

• My paper, "The New Internalism About Prudential Value," was recently published in Philosophical Studies. 

• My paper, "What Should the Desire Theorist Say About Ill-Being?," was recently published in Mauro Rossi and Christine Tappolet's edited volume, Ill-Being: Philosophical Perspectives (Oxford University Press).