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)

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 , ...

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Mind-body problem roundup

For readers who might be interested, I thought it would be useful to gather together in one place links to various posts on the mind-body...

Saturday, May 14, 2011

Leibniz’s Mill

In section 17 of his Monadology , Leibniz puts forward the following argument against materialism: Moreover, it must be confessed that pe...

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Gillespie on modernity

Some time back I reviewed Michael Allen Gillespie’s book The Theological Origins of Modernity in The Review of Metaphysics . I notice t...

Sunday, May 8, 2011

Are you for real?

In a recent post , I gave as an example of an obviously wrongheaded conception of God’s relationship to the world the idea that we are...

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Happy Anniversary, Bill

My friend Bill Vallicella kindly offers his congratulations on the birth of my daughter, and I offer my congratulations to him on the seven...

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Reply to Torley and Cudworth

This is the second installment of a two-part post on the dispute between Aristotelian-Thomistic (A-T) metaphysics and “Intelligent Design” (...

Saturday, April 30, 2011

Nature versus art

I’ve been meaning to put the debate between Aristotelian-Thomistic (A-T) metaphysics and “Intelligent Design” (ID) theory aside for a time, ...

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Hunter on TLS

Philosopher Graeme Hunter kindly reviews The Last Superstition in the latest issue of Touchstone . From the review: Feser is a talented ...

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Happy Birthday

I am pleased to announce that my wife Rachel gave birth yesterday to our sixth child, Gwendolyn Marie Feser. Cigars all around. Posting ma...

Friday, April 22, 2011

Easter Triduum

Frank Turek of the radio program CrossExamined informs me that they will be rerunning his recent interview with me this Saturday at 10 am E...

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Uncommon Descent update

My readers should know that Vincent Torley has added a disclaimer to his recent post , apologizing for any misrepresentation of my views con...

The God above God

I’m not a big fan of Paul Tillich . As a philosopher, he was too muddleheaded; as a theologian, too modernist. But even muddleheaded moder...

State Cows

I recently got an email from Daniel Andersson of the Swedish band State Cows about their new eponymous album . It’s terrific – I’ve bee...

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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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