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)

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Popper contra computationalism

Karl Popper was an important critic of materialist theories of the mind. His most significant and original criticism is an argument against...

Friday, February 24, 2012

Hayek and Popper on the mind

My paper “Hayek, Popper, and the Causal Theory of the Mind,” which recently appeared in a volume of Advances in Austrian Economics devoted...

Monday, February 20, 2012

How to animate a corpse

One of the downsides of being a philosopher is that it makes it harder to suspend disbelief when watching horror flicks. Plot holes become ...

Sunday, February 19, 2012

Cal Poly Pomona seminar

This coming Saturday, February 25, I’ll be speaking at Cal Poly Pomona at a seminar on the theme “Does God Exist?” sponsored by the Cal Poly...

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

The metaphysics of romantic love

Traditional natural law theory is often accused of reducing sexual morality to mere anatomy, the proper fitting together of body parts. The...

Sunday, February 12, 2012

John Hick (1922-2012)

The Prosblogion reports that philosopher of religion John Hick has died. I knew Hick twenty years ago, during his final semester at the C...

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Review of Atkins and Feyerabend

Readers of the Claremont Review of Books may want to look for my review, in the latest issue, of Peter Atkins’ On Being and Paul Feyerabe...

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Contraception, subsidiarity, and the Catholic bishops

By now you may have heard that the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under Kathleen Sebelius, a Catholic, has issued a man...

Friday, February 3, 2012

Reading Rosenberg, Part VII

Pressing on through Alex Rosenberg’s The Atheist’s Guide to Reality , we come to Rosenberg’s treatment of morality. Followed out consistent...

Monday, January 30, 2012

Contemporary Aristotelian Metaphysics

The long-awaited anthology Contemporary Aristotelian Metaphysics , edited by Tuomas Tahko for Cambridge University Press, is now available....

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Reading Rosenberg, Part VI

Let’s continue our detailed critical look at Alex Rosenberg’s The Atheist’s Guide to Reality . In the previous installment , we took a deto...

Monday, January 23, 2012

Maudlin on the philosophy of cosmology

What’s the difference between a philosopher of science and a scientist who comments on philosophy? The difference is that the philosopher u...

Friday, January 20, 2012

Jokes, lies, and jocose lies

Many years ago, arriving at a party at a friend’s house, I noticed a Jaguar parked out front. The guy who answered the door didn’t know me,...

Sunday, January 15, 2012

Point of contact

Bruce Charlton identifies six problems for modern Christian apologists , and proposes a solution. His remarks are all interesting, but I wa...

Monday, January 9, 2012

Video of Science and Faith Conference now online

Last month I gave a talk at the Science and Faith Conference at Franciscan University of Steubenville, on the theme “Natural Theology Must B...

Saturday, January 7, 2012

TLS in the Telegraph

Christopher Howse of The Daily Telegraph on The Last Superstition : “God’s more than a watchmaker: How a misapprehension of the New Atheist...

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Smith, Tollefsen, and Pruss on lying

Last summer, theologian Janet E. Smith published an article in First Things defending the moral legitimacy, under certain circumstances, of...

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...

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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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