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"One of the best contemporary writers on philosophy" National Review
"A terrific writer" Damian Thompson, Daily Telegraph
"Feser... has the rare and enviable gift of making philosophical argument compulsively readable" Sir Anthony Kenny, Times Literary Supplement
Selected for the First Things list of the 50 Best Blogs of 2010 (November 19, 2010)
About Me
- Edward Feser
- I am a writer and philosopher living in Los Angeles. I teach philosophy at Pasadena City College. My primary academic research interests are in the philosophy of mind, moral and political philosophy, and philosophy of religion. I also write on politics, from a conservative point of view; and on religion, from a traditional Roman Catholic perspective.
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Books by Edward Feser
- Immortal Souls: A Treatise on Human Nature
- All One in Christ: A Catholic Critique of Racism and Critical Race Theory
- Aristotle’s Revenge: The Metaphysical Foundations of Physical and Biological Science
- Five Proofs of the Existence of God
- By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed: A Catholic Defense of Capital Punishment (with Joseph M. Bessette)
- Neo-Scholastic Essays
- Scholastic Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction
- Aristotle on Method and Metaphysics
- Aquinas
- The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism
- Locke
- The Cambridge Companion to Hayek
- Philosophy of Mind
- On Nozick
Articles by Edward Feser available online
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- St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Contra Gentiles
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- Thomas Aquinas in English: A Bibliography
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Oh my goodness! Just reading this tittle is driving me crazy to read! I hope that the paywall drops soon.
ReplyDeleteYou mean we Kant read it yet?
DeleteHaha, yeah!
DeleteUnfortunately, we don't have the phenomenon, much less the noumenon... for now.
Kant was the greatest of all philosophers. He foresaw quantum mechanics.
ReplyDeleteHahaha, yeah sure. Could you justify that bizarre statement please?
DeleteGoogle it. Haha.
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ReplyDeleteOne of the best observations on Kant (curtesy of Edmund Husserl) was that he failed to see how metal events and entities would also need their own ontology (it doesn’t matter if some of the mind is inaccessible) and to complain this was merely conditioned by subjective necessity was self-defeat by kicking the problem up a stage. As such trying to separate Epistemology from Metaphysics was like trying to outmanoeuvre one’s reflection.
I don't have a Claremont account so I only read the first couple of lines. What has struck me over the last many years, though, is that the rough difference between conservatives and liberals - at least in America - is the distinction you describe between taking external reality as the given and starting with our own internal dispositions.
ReplyDeleteYou don't need to read Ed's review (although I would like to) to know that he (like all Thomistic philosophers) takes a dim view of Kant. For a favorable review of this book, read this article that has no paywall:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/03/kant-a-revolution-in-thinking-marcus-willaschek-book-review
Prof. Marcus Willaschek is a brilliant philosopher in his own right. This is a review of his book explaining Kant's views on metaphysics:
ReplyDeletehttps://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/kant-on-the-sources-of-metaphysics-the-dialectic-of-pure-reason/