W. David Hall
W. George Matton Professor Emeritus of Philosophy & Religion
Education
BA - California State University, Sacramento
MDiv & PhD - University of Chicago
BIOGRAPHY
David Hall is the W. George Matton Professor Emeritus at Centre College. He taught for 23 years at Centre College in Kentucky before moving to Augsburg University. His recent publications include How to Think Philosophically (2024) and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Theology, and Political Resistance (2020). He completed doctoral work at the University of Chicago.
RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS
Dr. Hall’s primary research interest is in modern and contemporary philosophy and religious studies. He is co-editor of and contributor to a volume of essays entitled Paul Ricoeur and Contemporary Moral Thought (Routledge, 2002), and is the author of Paul Ricoeur and the Poetic Imperative: The Creative Tension Between Love and Justice (SUNY, 2007). His most recent book is Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Theology, and Political Resistance (Lexington, 2020), co-edited with Lori Brandt Hale. His approach is broadly interdisciplinary, addressing currents within philosophy, literary theory, and the social sciences.