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, August 31, 2012

Animals are conscious! In other news, sky is blue, water wet

A reader calls my attention to a Discovery News story which breathlessly declares: A prominent group of scientists signs a docume...

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Think, McFly, think!

As Aristotelians and Thomists use the term, intellect is that faculty by which we grasp abstract concepts (like the concepts man and...

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

The metaphysics of bionic implants

Take a look at the classic title sequence of The Six Million Dollar Man . Oscar Goldman (the bionic man’s superior in the Office of...

Friday, August 17, 2012

Rediscovering Human Beings

My article “Rediscovering Human Beings” will appear in two parts over at The BioLogos Forum . Today you can read Part I . Part II will ...

Philosophy on radio (UPDATED)

I’ll be appearing once again on Catholic Answers Live this coming Monday, August 20 th , at 4:00 pm (Pacific time). Links to some previ...

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

The road from libertarianism

I have pretty much always been conservative. For about a decade -- from the early 90s to the early 00s -- I was also a libertarian. Tha...

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Disching it out

One of the hazards of hagiography is that it virtually begs for debunking. Pile the honors on too thick and too uncritically, and eventu...

Monday, August 6, 2012

Briggs on TLS and tone

Statistician William M. Briggs is beginning a series of posts on my book The Last Superstition . In the first installment he considers ...

Thursday, August 2, 2012

Concretizing the abstract

Eric Voegelin famously (if obscurely) characterized utopian political projects as attempts to “immanentize the eschaton.” A related er...

Monday, July 30, 2012

Back from Sydney

And quite tired from a very busy week (and very long flight!) I want to thank my new friends at the Catholic Adult Education Centre and a...

Friday, July 20, 2012

Philosophy of Mind on audio

A couple of months ago I called attention to the recently released audio version of my book Aquinas . My book Philosophy of Mind is no...

See you in Sydney

I’ll be in Australia next week for the CAEC speaking tour I announced recently. Blog activity will be sporadic at best until I return. ...

Thursday, July 19, 2012

The Aquinas Institute

The Aquinas Institute in Wyoming will, over time, be publishing the works of Thomas Aquinas in an affordable hardcover format, both in L...

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

The road from atheism

As most of my readers probably know, I was an atheist for about a decade -- roughly the 1990s, give or take. Occasionally I am asked how...

Monday, July 16, 2012

Cosmological argument roundup

A year ago today I put up a post with the title “So you think you understand the cosmological argument?” It generated quite a bit of di...

Classical theism roundup

Classical theism is the conception of God that has prevailed historically within Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Western philosophical ...

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Oderberg updated

David Oderberg has revamped his website and given it a new location . Update your bookmarks accordingly. Take note also of his new Meta...

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Barr on quantum mechanics

Over at Big Questions Online, physicist Stephen Barr addresses the question of the relationship between quantum physics and theology. T...

Thursday, July 5, 2012

Atheistic teleology?

There has been a lot of talk in the blogosphere and elsewhere about former atheist blogger Leah Libresco’s recent conversion to Catholic...

Monday, July 2, 2012

Answering Atheism in Australia

The Catholic Adult Education Centre of the Archdiocese of Sydney is kindly hosting me for a week-long speaking tour from July 23 - 29. ...

Friday, June 29, 2012

Reply to Steve Fuller

As I noted in a recent post, the Spring 2012 issue of Theoretical and Applied Ethics contains a symposium on Ethics, Atheism, and Relig...

Monday, June 25, 2012

Sentient plants? Part II

Gene Callahan responds to my recent criticisms of his view that plants are sentient. (Some plants or all? Gene seems to think all of ...

Friday, June 22, 2012

Sentient plants?

Economist Gene Callahan (a friend of this blog) calls my attention to this article , which claims that plants are capable of “sensory” re...

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

McGinn on atheism

The Spring 2012 issue of Theoretical and Applied Ethics contains a symposium on Ethics, Atheism, and Religion. The lead essay is by Co...

Sunday, June 17, 2012

Philosophy of nature and philosophy of [fill in the blank]

A reader of my recent post on the philosophy of nature asks some excellent questions: I wonder, where does the philosophy of physics...

Sunday, June 10, 2012

Ray Bradbury (1920 - 2012)

When Ray Bradbury was twelve years old, he went to a carnival and encountered Mr. Electrico, a performer who sat in an electric chair wit...

Thursday, June 7, 2012

Oerter on motion and the First Mover

George Mason University physicist Robert Oerter has completed his series of critical posts on my book The Last Superstition . I respond...

Friday, June 1, 2012

Color holds and quantum theory

When figuring out how many human beings of average weight can be carried on an airplane, engineers deal with abstractions. For one thing...

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Natural theology, natural science, and the philosophy of nature

Physicist Robert Oerter has added some further installments to his series of posts on my book The Last Superstition , including a reply ...

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Cinematic representation

What makes it the case that a picture of Grandma represents Grandma? That it looks like her, you might say. But that can’t be the righ...

Monday, May 21, 2012

John Paul the Great Academy

John Paul the Great Academy in Lafayette, Louisiana is a fine Catholic college preparatory institution promoting the classical curriculu...

Sunday, May 20, 2012

Oerter contra the principle of causality

The Scholastic principle of causality states that any potential, if actualized, must be actualized by something already actual. (It is ...

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Aquinas on audio

Your print copy of Aquinas is dog-eared. You’ve worn out your Kindle reading the e-book version . If only you could give your eyes a r...

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Review of Krauss

Something of a latecomer to the ecumenical Lawrence Krauss-bashing that has been taking place across the Internet, my review of A Univers...

Monday, May 14, 2012

Oerter on universals and causality

George Mason University physicist (and author of The Theory of Almost Everything ) Robert Oerter is writing up a series of posts on my ...

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Kripke contra computationalism

That the brain is a digital computer and the mind the software run on the computer are theses that seem to many to be confirmed by our be...

New from Editiones scholasticae

I called attention some time back to Editiones scholasticae , a new German publishing venture devoted to publishing works in Scholastic ...

Sunday, May 6, 2012

Contemporary Scholasticism

Ontos Verlag , the international publisher in philosophy and mathematical logic, is pleased to present the new book series: CONTEMPOR...

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Rosenberg roundup

Having now completed our ten-part series of posts on Alex Rosenberg’s The Atheist’s Guide to Reality , it seems a roundup of sorts is in ...

Monday, April 30, 2012

Reading Rosenberg, Part X

And now we reach, at long last, the end of our detailed critical look at Alex Rosenberg’s The Atheist’s Guide to Reality . In this fina...

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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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