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)

Monday, March 30, 2009

Fodor and Aquinas on the Extended Mind Thesis

Jerry Fodor reviews Andy Clark’s Supersizing the Mind . Clark, with David Chalmers, has defended what they call the “Extended Mind Thesis” ...

Friday, March 27, 2009

Pants on fire

My stalker Brian Leiter is at it yet again . This is becoming formulaic: First identify me as “the” author of the counter-petition . (That j...

Thursday, March 26, 2009

The Last Superstition: the commercial

Steve Burton, my esteemed co-blogger at What’s Wrong with the World (and back in the day, at Right Reason) has a little fun with YouTube, ...

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

The less Rey knows, the less he knows it

Apropos my post on straw man arguments in the philosophy of religion, reader Bobcat calls my attention to this article by philosopher of m...

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Straw men and terracotta armies

Every academic philosopher solemnly teaches his students never to commit the straw man fallacy . And yet relentlessly committing it oneself ...

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Scruton on the New Atheism

Among the claims defended in The Last Superstition is that the secularism of the New Atheists has no positive moral content, but can be see...

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

The latest on the APA petition controversy

Over at First Things , Keith Pavlischek reports on the reactions of various Christian colleges to the American Philosophical Association pe...

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

How (some of) your professors see you

Lydia McGrew, my esteemed co-blogger at What’s Wrong with the World , calls attention to this moment of honesty from the late liberal pragm...

Monday, March 16, 2009

Vallicella on hypocrisy

Bill Vallicella has some characteristically wise remarks on what hypocrisy is, and what it isn’t. As he notes, a failure to live up to one’...

Thursday, March 12, 2009

ForeWord on TLS

ForeWord Magazine is a trade journal directed at librarians and booksellers and devoted to reviewing books published by independent and uni...

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Oderberg on bioethics

Natural law bioethicist David Oderberg reports on the state of "Bioethics Today" in The Human Life Review . Particularly timely g...

Sunday, March 8, 2009

“Yawn” indeed

An embarrassed Brian Leiter frantically updates his post yet again , and devotes 194 words to ridiculing my “lengthy” (360 word) “cyber-tre...

Ross’s Thought and World

For readers interested in a detailed and rigorous contemporary defense of Aristotelian metaphysics written from a point of view informed by ...

Friday, March 6, 2009

So am I a crank and a liar, or not?

Mark Murphy has put forward a draft letter to the APA critical of Charles Hermes’ petition , though for reasons different from (though not ...

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Searle and property dualism

David Lewis once wrote that “philosophical theories are never refuted conclusively. (Or hardly ever, Gödel and Gettier may have done it.)” T...

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

And on the Leiter side…

Brian Leiter “ learns ” from Charles Hermes that the counter-petition mentioned below is “the creation of Edward Feser,” of whose “unhinged...

Politicizing philosophy

Charles Hermes, a philosopher at UT Arlington, recently started a petition calling on the American Philosophical Association to stigmatize ...

Sunday, March 1, 2009

Kimball on the ECC controversy

Roger Kimball has a fine piece on the Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization controversy in the latest New Criterion . There's some n...

Saturday, February 28, 2009

J. L. Austin and conservatism

Given my recent posts on tradition and on the early modern philosophers’ transformation of traditional philosophical vocabulary, it seems ...

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

TLS radio podcast

The podcast of my interview on The Jeff Whitaker Show from last Thursday is now available for your listening pleasure. My segment begins ...

Tone deaf

Bill Vallicella gets email from a reader who, to quote one of the Geico cavemen , is “not 100% in love with [my] tone” in The Last Supersti...

Ashes to Ashes

Today is Ash Wednesday. National Review Online has posted a symposium on the meaning of Lent, to which I have made a brief contribution.

Monday, February 23, 2009

Oderberg's Real Essentialism

I have recommended David Oderberg's excellent recent book Real Essentialism to anyone interested in a detailed and rigorous exposition...

Saturday, February 21, 2009

Wiley-Blackwell responds

In response to my second National Review Online piece on the Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization controversy, Wiley-Blackwell represent...

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Conservatives and tradition

A left-of-center friend of mine recently complained to me that conservatives are “guilty of appealing to tradition when it suits [them], and...

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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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