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, December 30, 2011

Hitchens, Dawkins, and Craig

As I have said , I never thought it was realistic to expect a deathbed conversion from Christopher Hitchens. But for all his ill-informed r...

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Reading Rosenberg, Part V

In the previous installment of our look at Alex Rosenberg’s The Atheist’s Guide to Reality , we began to examine what Rosenberg has to say ...

Monday, December 26, 2011

Links of interest

Kathrin Koslicki and Tuomas Tahko are two important contributors to the current revival of interest in neo-Aristotelian metaphysics. Tahk...

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Hayek and Popper

My paper “Hayek, Popper, and the Causal Theory of the Mind” appears in the latest volume of Advances in Austrian Economics , a special issue...

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

My Christmas gift to you…

We’ve had some things to say about nothing ( here , here , and here ), or at least about how some people who themselves claim to have someth...

Monday, December 19, 2011

The phenomenology of spirits

Human life is tragic. And while there are, without question, a great many evils we would all wish away in a heartbeat if only we could, to ...

Sunday, December 18, 2011

Greene on Nozick on nothing

Brian Greene’s The Hidden Reality surveys the various speculations about parallel universes on offer in contemporary physics. Toward the e...

Thursday, December 15, 2011

Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011)

Christopher Hitchens, who had been suffering from esophageal cancer for over a year, has died . I think I first came across his work around...

Saturday, December 10, 2011

Reading Rosenberg, Part IV

Alex Rosenberg’s dubious use of physics was the focus of the previous installment of our look at his new book The Atheist’s Guide to Realit...

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Radio Free Aquinas

I’ll be on The Frank Pastore Show on KKLA Radio on Thursday, December 8 (tomorrow) from 5 - 6 pm PST to discuss The Last Superstition and...

Monday, December 5, 2011

Dawkins vs. Dawkins (Updated)

During my Catholic Answers Live interview last Monday , I noted that Richard Dawkins refuses to debate philosopher William Lane Craig. Dawk...

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

TLS in TMR

The Montréal Review kindly runs a précis of The Last Superstition in their latest edition. While you’re over there, do browse through TM...

Sunday, November 27, 2011

TLS on radio

I’ll be on the Catholic Answers Live radio show tomorrow at 7 pm ET to discuss The Last Superstition . (You might be able to find podcasts...

Saturday, November 26, 2011

Palmer on libertarianism

My review of Tom G. Palmer’s recent book Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice appears in the latest issue of Reaso...

Friday, November 25, 2011

TLS and formal causes

The website Apologetics 315 kindly reviews my book The Last Superstition . I’ll let you check out the nice things said about the book for ...

Thursday, November 17, 2011

What part of “nothing” don’t you understand?

While we’re on the subject of bad cosmological speculations : A reader asked me some time back to comment on this little video from New Sc...

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Broken Law (Updated)

So, a year after promising a reply to my detailed critique of his “evil god challenge,” Stephen Law’s long-awaited response (see the combo...

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Reading Rosenberg, Part III

Continuing our look at Alex Rosenberg’s The Atheist’s Guide to Reality , we come to Rosenberg’s treatment of the question “Where did the bi...

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Reading Rosenberg, Part II

We saw in part I of this series that Alex Rosenberg’s new book The Atheist’s Guide to Reality is less about atheism than it is about scien...

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Crickets still chirping... (Updated)

Over a year ago, in the combox of a post on another topic , a reader asked for my opinion of Stephen Law’s “evil-god challenge” to theism. ...

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Reading Rosenberg, Part I

I called attention in an earlier post to my review in First Things of Alex Rosenberg’s new book The Atheist’s Guide to Reality . Here I...

Friday, October 21, 2011

Magic versus metaphysics

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke Any sufficiently rigorously defined magic is indi...

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Tollefsen channels Rawls

Over at Public Discourse , Chris Tollefsen has replied to my most recent contribution to our ongoing exchange over the death penalty. (Go...

Monday, October 17, 2011

Review of Rosenberg

My review of Alex Rosenberg’s new book The Atheist’s Guide to Reality appears in the November issue of First Things . (Unfortunately, the...

Friday, October 14, 2011

Weekend reading

A few articles worthy of your attention: R. J. Stove, conservative writer and son of the late conservative atheist philosopher David Stove, ...

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Tollefsen on capital punishment

My article “Punishment, Proportionality, and the Death Penalty,” a reply to Christopher Tollefsen’s latest piece on capital punishment, is...

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Upcoming conferences

St. Louis University will be hosting the American Catholic Philosophical Association annual meeting this year, on October 28 -30. I’ll be ...

Saturday, October 8, 2011

Harper on original sin

In the last of my recent posts on original sin , I cited Thomas Harper’s long out-of-print little book The Immaculate Conception as contai...

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Best book titles ever

Well, the best of those I see around me on the bookshelves in my study, anyway. And by “best” I don’t mean “most profound” or “most help...

Saturday, October 1, 2011

On rehabilitation and execution

If you haven’t seen it yet, you should take a look at Steven Long’s response to Chris Tollefsen’s recent arguments against capital punis...

Thursday, September 29, 2011

In defense of capital punishment

I have a new piece up over at Public Discourse responding to a recent critique of capital punishment by Christopher Tollefsen. (In earli...

Friday, September 23, 2011

Modern biology and original sin, Part II

In part I of this series (and in a response to critics of part I ) I addressed the question of whether monogenism of the sort entailed by...

Monday, September 19, 2011

Pop culture roundup

Two or three of my readers have expressed interest in my posts on movies, popular music, and pop culture in general. And I’ll bet at lea...

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Some varieties of atheism

A religion typically has both practical and theoretical aspects. The former concern its moral teachings and rituals, the latter its meta...

Monday, September 12, 2011

Monkey in your soul?

Before we get to part II of my series on modern biology and original sin, I want briefly to reply to some of the responses made to part I . ...

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Ten years on

I had been out of grad school for a couple of years, but I was still keeping grad school hours. Having stayed up very late the night bef...

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Modern biology and original sin, Part I

Our friend John Farrell has caused a bit of a stir in the blogosphere with his recent Forbes piece on modern biology and the doctrine of ...

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Movies, comic books, and sequential art

I had occasion recently to take a few of the kids to see Captain America: The First Avenger . As a lifelong movie, comic book, and scien...

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Vallicella on hylemorphic dualism, Part III

Bill Vallicella and I have been debating Aquinas’s hylemorphic dualism (HD). Earlier posts ( here , here , here , and here ) have focused o...

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Development versus decay

A reader asks an interesting question: You write often of the loss of Aristotelian metaphysics (specifically as adopted and developed by...

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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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