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)

Friday, February 26, 2010

What’s black and white and misread all over?

Dale Tuggy quotes a famous passage from the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola: To be right in everything, we ought always to hold...

Sunday, February 21, 2010

The Nightfly: Vatican approved!

Via Fr. John Zuhlsdorf’s blog, I learn that L’Osservatore Romano has published a list of “top 10 albums for a desert island.” I kid you no...

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Mackie on ad hoc hypotheses

Bill Vallicella objects to the Scholastic notion of suppositum because he takes it to be entirely ad hoc, “a mere invention pulled out of ...

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Tuggy contra mysterianism

Dale Tuggy replies to my recent posts ( here and here ) on “mysterianism” and the doctrine of the Trinity. He suggests that characterizing...

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Dawkins on omnipotence and omniscience

A reader asks for my response to this passage from Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion : Incidentally, it has not escaped the notice of logici...

Saturday, February 13, 2010

Speaking from ignorance

This would explain why many philosophers who do not specialize in philosophy of religion manifestly don’t know what they’re talking about w...

Trinity and mystery, Part II

Much of the recent blogospheric discussion of the Trinity noted in my previous post concerns the sense in which the doctrine of the Trinity...

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Trinity and mystery

As I have noted in earlier posts ( here and here ), when Trinitarian theologians refer to the doctrine of the Trinity as a “mystery,” they ...

Monday, February 8, 2010

Scholasticism as Modern Philosophy

Scholasticism ended with Descartes and Co. and was only revived, briefly, with Pope Leo XIII’s Aeterni Patris . Right? Wrong. Here is a use...

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Spaemann on teleology

One of the main themes of The Last Superstition is the delusional character of the moderns’ project of banishing teleology or final causal...

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

The Leiter side of OCD

A philosopher writes: I hate calling attention to this creepazoid, but Leiter is at it again, and is attempting once again to smear W4 . ...

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Plotinus contra modernity

Plotinus’ thought is sublime. We find in it not only an important statement of the classical theistic position that all reality derives fro...

Friday, January 29, 2010

Ralph McInerny (1929-2010)

Resquiescat in pace ‏.

Thursday, January 28, 2010

“Go to Thomas!”

“ Ite ad Thomam! ” the popes have taught us; “Go to Thomas!” Today is the feast day of St. Thomas Aquinas. As you sip your Aquinas in celeb...

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Plotinus on divine simplicity, Part III

We have now examined Plotinus’ arguments for the One and for Intellect and Soul . Plotinus’ doctrine of three divine “hypostases” is famous...

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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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