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)

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Life, Reproduction, and the Paradox of Evolution

My article “Life, Reproduction, and the Paradox of Evolution” appears in a special issue of the journal BioCosmos devoted to exploring th...

Friday, February 28, 2025

Mackie on Pascal’s Wager

I’ve never been a fan of Pascal’s Wager. But there’s a bit more that one might say for it than is often supposed. For example, the objecti...

Thursday, February 20, 2025

What proceeds from Hart (Updated)

Epilogue 2/22: As those who have read the updates to this post will have learned, David Bentley Hart has apologized for the offending remark...

Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Immigration and academia on The Tom Woods Show

This week I appear on The Tom Woods Show to discuss the immigration debate, the state of academic philosophy, and other matters.

Friday, February 7, 2025

Trump’s Gaza proposal is gravely immoral

Today my critique of Trump’s Gaza proposal appears at the National Catholic Register . Friends, whether you agree or disagree, I urge you ...

Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Just war principles and the Mexican drug cartels

In my latest article at Postliberal Order , I argue that under certain conditions, U.S. military intervention in Mexico against the drug ca...

Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Catholics and immigration on No Spin News (Updated)

Those who follow me on Twitter/X will know that I posted there heavily last week about the controversy over Catholicism and immigration. T...

Thursday, January 30, 2025

More on Immortal Souls

The latest feedback on Immortal Souls: A Treatise on Human Nature . At Twitter/X, theologian Ulrich Lehner writes : “A wonderful book. Shar...

Thursday, January 23, 2025

The ethics of invective

It’s often said that while sticks and stones can break our bones, words can never hurt us. But it isn’t true. Were we mere animals it woul...

Tuesday, January 14, 2025

A report from the Great Los Angeles Fire

On the extent, causes, and lessons of the disaster, in my latest article at Postliberal Order.

Tuesday, December 31, 2024

The thread you’ve been waiting for

Let’s close out 2024 and begin 2025 with a long overdue open thread. Now’s your chance to get that otherwise off-topic comment posted at la...

Saturday, December 28, 2024

Boczar on Immortal Souls

At The Review of Metaphysics , philosopher Jack Boczar kindly reviews my book Immortal Souls: A Treatise on Human Nature . From the review...

Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Gilson on philosophy and its history

You might suppose from the title of Etienne Gilson’s The Unity of Philosophical Experience that it is a book about philosophy in general. ...

Monday, December 16, 2024

Nicholson on Immortal Souls

At Catholic World Report , philosopher Sam Nicholson kindly reviews my book Immortal Souls: A Treatise on Human Nature . From the review: ...

Wednesday, December 4, 2024

Full interview on Pints with Aquinas

My recent three-hour interview with Matt Fradd on Pints with Aquinas is now available in its entirety at YouTube . The discussion is wide-...

Monday, December 2, 2024

Pints with Aquinas interview (Updated)

Recently Matt Fradd kindly had me on Pints with Aquinas for a wide-ranging three-hour interview. At the moment, the full interview is avail...

Wednesday, November 27, 2024

Zubia on Hume and liberalism

“Hume’s Trojan Horse,” my review of Aaron Alexander Zubia’s new book The Political Thought of David Hume: The Origins of Liberalism and the...

Tuesday, November 26, 2024

Popper’s via negativa

Negative theology (also known as apophatic theology) is an approach to the study of the divine nature that emphasizes that our knowledge of ...

Monday, November 18, 2024

Advice to Christian Philosophers

My essay “From Justin Martyr to Alvin Plantinga and Back Again: Advice from the First Christian Philosopher” appears in the anthology Advice...

Monday, November 11, 2024

Pro-lifers must resist Trump on abortion and IVF

Pro-lifers should rejoice in the defeat of Kamala Harris, and of the Democratic Party, which remains the greatest threat to the unborn in Am...

Sunday, October 27, 2024

Progressive Catholics and capital punishment

The debate over capital punishment between conservative and progressive Catholics typically exhibits the following dialectic. The conservat...

Monday, October 21, 2024

Augustine, liberalism, and political polarization

In my latest article at Postliberal Order , I discuss the light that Augustine’s account of peace as “the tranquility of order” sheds on th...

Tuesday, October 8, 2024

Immortal Souls now available

After some frustrating delays in distribution, my book Immortal Souls: A Treatise on Human Nature is now in stock and available from Amazon...

Friday, October 4, 2024

Abortion and subsidiarity

Ever since the Dobbs decision permitted states to set their own abortion policies, Donald Trump has taken the position that the issue should...

Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Vinco on Feser in Philosophische Rundschau

German-speaking readers might be interested in Roberto Vinco’s article “Neo-Scholastic Metaphysics in the 21st Century: An Examination of th...

Wednesday, September 25, 2024

The latest on Immortal Souls

Philosophers William Vallicella and Christopher Kaczor weigh in on my new book Immortal Souls: A Treatise on Human Nature . At his blog, Bi...

Tuesday, September 24, 2024

The new Aquinas 101

The Thomistic Institute has launched a new Aquinas 101 learning platform for its well-known and excellent series of videos. Check it out he...

Sunday, September 22, 2024

The popesplainer’s safety dance

Pope Francis recently added yet another item to the long list of doctrinally problematic statements he has issued through the course of his ...

Sunday, September 15, 2024

Trump: A buyer’s guide

In the weeks since I wrote on the dilemma that Donald Trump has put social conservatives in, the problem has only become far more pronounce...

Sunday, September 1, 2024

The problem with the “hard problem”

Robert Lawrence Kuhn is well-known as the creator and host of the public television series Closer to Truth , an invaluable source of intervi...

Monday, August 19, 2024

Rawls’s liberal integralism

John Rawls’s political liberalism is no more neutral and no less religiously particular than a comprehensively Catholic society. I elaborat...

Saturday, August 10, 2024

Trump has put social conservatives in a dilemma

Let’s begin with the obvious. No social conservative could possibly justify voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. They are pro-abortion e...

Tuesday, August 6, 2024

Damnation roundup

The reality of hell is the clear and infallible teaching of scripture and tradition. I would argue that even purely philosophical argumenta...

Wednesday, July 24, 2024

Word on Fire Institute course

My six-part video course on Six Arguments for the Existence of God is available for free from the Word on Fire Institute. A short preview ...

Saturday, July 20, 2024

More on the GOP and social conservatism

For those not following me on X (Twitter) , some posts from the last couple of days attempting further to clarify what is at issue, and at s...

Wednesday, July 17, 2024

Now is the time for social conservatives to fight

Readers who follow me on X (Twitter) will know of the intense debate occurring there over the last week between social conservatives critic...

Sunday, July 14, 2024

Fight, yes, but for what?

It is impossible not to admire the resilience and fighting spirit with which Donald Trump responded – literally within moments – to the fail...

Friday, July 12, 2024

The future of the Magisterium

The latest issue of First Things features a symposium on the future of the Catholic Church, to which I contributed an article on the futur...

Thursday, July 11, 2024

Rawls on religion

Though John Rawls wrote much that is of relevance to religion – and in particular, to the question of what influence it can properly have on...

Saturday, June 29, 2024

Hobbes and Kant on capital punishment

Thomas Hobbes and Immanuel Kant both had an enormous formative influence on modern moral and political philosophy, and on liberalism in part...

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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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