Dr. Chris Hackett
- Department Systematic Theology
- Title Associate Professor of Philosophy
Education
- PhD (University of Virginia, 2011)
- MPhil (University of Nottingham, 2007)
- MA (Reformed Theological Seminary, 2004)
- BA (Samford University, 2001)
Biography
Dr. William C. Hackett regularly teaches courses in ancient and medieval philosophy, epistemology, and political philosophy, as well as a propaedeutic great books seminar on the Middle Ages.
Before coming to Saint Meinrad, he was research fellow and lecturer in philosophy at the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne and an adjunct professor of philosophy at Belmont University. He has held visiting appointments at Harvard Divinity School’s Center for the Study of World Religions, Boston College, Institut Catholique de Paris, University of Notre Dame, and Nassa Theological College in Tanzania. He is an ancien pensionnaire étranger de l’École normale supérieure (rue d’Ulm).
Dr. Hackett is a translator of works from French to English such as Miklos Vető, The Expansion of Metaphysics (2018), Jean Wahl, Human Existence and Transcendence (2016), and others. He is the author of Anthropomorphism and Christian Theology (2024), Philosophy in Word and Name: Myth, Wisdom, Apocalypse (2020), and (with Tarek Dika) Quiet Powers of the Possible: Interviews in Contemporary French Phenomenology (2016). His writings have appeared in French, Spanish, and Hungarian publications.
His novella, Outside the Gates (2021), took an honorable mention at the Catholic Media Association Book Awards.
Dr. Hackett is currently researching St. Severinus Boethius’ Consolation and Blaise Pascal’s deathbed prayers.