Edward Feser

"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)

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Kenny on TLS in TLS

Sir Anthony Kenny very kindly reviews The Last Superstition in the July 22 issue of The Times Literary Supplement . From the review : Ed...

Sunday, July 24, 2011

Rosenhouse redux

In fairness to Jason Rosenhouse, I want to call attention to some comments he makes in the combox of the recent post of his to which I repl...

Grow up or shut up

I’ve pointed out that the argument so many atheists like to attack when they purport to refute the cosmological argument -- namely “Everyth...

Friday, July 22, 2011

New ACPQ article

My article “Existential Inertia and the Five Ways” appears in the latest issue of the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly . Here is ...

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Does morality depend on God? (Updated)

Not the way many people think it does. A reader asks me to comment on this post by Trent Dougherty over at The Prosblogion. Dougherty not...

Saturday, July 16, 2011

So you think you understand the cosmological argument?

Most people who comment on the cosmological argument demonstrably do not know what they are talking about. This includes all the prominen...

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Tom and Jerry

Let’s give Jerry Coyne credit. He asked for advice on what to read in order to understand what theists take to be the rational foundations...

Monday, July 11, 2011

A clue for Jerry Coyne

A reader alerts me that Jerry Coyne, whose philosophical efforts we had occasion recently to evaluate, has been reading some theology – “u...

Thursday, July 7, 2011

On some alleged quantifier shift fallacies, Part II

Continuing our look at alleged cases of the quantifier shift fallacy committed by prominent philosophers, let’s turn to an example from Joh...

Monday, July 4, 2011

A first without a second

For the Thomist, to say that God is the First Cause of things is, first and foremost, to say that He is the cause of their existence at ever...

Of note…

For your consideration on this fine Fourth of July: Tuomas Tahko posts video of Kit Fine’s talk at a recent conference on Aristotelian Th...

Saturday, July 2, 2011

Editiones scholasticae

Editiones scholasticae is a new German publishing venture devoted to publishing works in Scholastic philosophy, including reprints of wo...

Thursday, June 30, 2011

On some alleged quantifier shift fallacies, Part I

If every reader of this blog owns a computer, it doesn’t follow that there is some one computer that every reader of this blog owns. To thi...

Monday, June 27, 2011

Routledge Handbook

The Routledge Handbook of Human Rights , edited by Thomas Cushman, will be published this summer. The book includes my essay “The Metaphysi...

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Nozick’s Tale of the Slave

While on the subject of Robert Nozick , we might note that he’s been written up this week in Slate , in an article by Stephen Metcalf . It’...

Monday, June 20, 2011

Meyer and fusionism

“Fusionism” is the label usually applied to Frank Meyer’s project of harmonizing freedom and tradition in a modern conservative synthesis. ...

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Blogging note

There’s an old John Callahan cartoon of a line of people exiting through a door marked “Hell” only to enter through another door marked “...

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

On Aristotle, Aquinas, and Paley: A Reply to Marie George

My article “Teleology: A Shopper’s Guide” (now available online) appeared in Philosophia Christi Vol. 12, No. 1 (2010). Prof. Marie Georg...

Sunday, June 12, 2011

O’Brien and Koons on metaphysics and morality

Over at Public Discourse , philosophers Matthew O’Brien and Robert Koons have posted a three-part series on metaphysics and morality: “What ...

Friday, June 10, 2011

Les Paul contra Scruton

As you’ve no doubt figured out from the latest Google logo, Thursday was the birthday of the late Les Paul , pioneer of the electric guitar ...

Friday, June 3, 2011

Singer “in a state of flux”

The Guardian reports that Peter Singer is having second thoughts about some aspects of his moral philosophy. In particular, he now has...

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Coyne on intentionality

Biologist Jerry Coyne responds to a recent post by Vincent Torley on the topic of whether the brain is a kind of computer. Torley had ...

Friday, May 27, 2011

Two, four, six, eight! Who do you reincarnate?

Could there be such a thing as reincarnation? A necessary condition would be the truth of some form of dualism. So far so good, since ( I ...

Monday, May 23, 2011

Comments on comments

I was out of town for several days and not monitoring the comboxes. Unfortunately, Blogger’s overzealous spam filter kept busy while I w...

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Review of Examined Lives

If you are a reader of First Things , you might find of interest my review of James Miller’s Examined Lives: From Socrates to Nietzsche , ...

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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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