James H. Hall (born 1933) is an American philosopher. He was the James Thomas Professor of Philosophy at the

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from 1965 until his retirement in 2005. He remains at the university as

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. His philosophical interests include: 20th Century

analytic philosophy Analytic philosophy is a branch and tradition of philosophy using analysis, popular in the Western world and particularly the Anglosphere, which began around the turn of the 20th century in the contemporary era in the United Kingdom, United Sta ...

epistemology Epistemology (; ), or the theory of knowledge, is the branch of philosophy concerned with knowledge. Epistemology is considered a major subfield of philosophy, along with other major subfields such as ethics, logic, and metaphysics. Episte ...

philosophy of religion Philosophy of religion is "the philosophical examination of the central themes and concepts involved in religious traditions". Philosophical discussions on such topics date from ancient times, and appear in the earliest known texts concerning ph ...

, and

logical empiricism Logical positivism, later called logical empiricism, and both of which together are also known as neopositivism, is a movement in Western philosophy whose central thesis was the verification principle (also known as the verifiability criterion o ...

. He has produced two lecture series for

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: ''Philosophy of Religion'' and ''Tools of Thinking: Understanding the World Through Experience and Reason''.

External links

Hall's Home Page

Department of Philosophy, University of Richmond Living people University of Richmond faculty 1933 births Analytic philosophers 20th-century American philosophers Epistemologists Philosophers of religion {{reli-philo-bio-stub