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)

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Forgetting nothing, learning nothing

Lawrence Krauss’s book A Universe from Nothing managed something few thought possible -- to outdo Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion ...

Thursday, February 21, 2013

Noë on the origin of life etc.

UC Berkeley philosopher (and atheist ) Alva Noë is, as we saw not too long ago , among the more perceptive and interesting critics of ...

Sunday, February 17, 2013

Back from Blackfriars

Back from Oxford , and exhausted. I thank Bill Carroll and the Dominicans at Blackfriars for their warm hospitality. (And thanks to ...

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

The limits of eliminativism

Eliminativist positions in philosophy are a variety of anti-realism , which is in turn typically contrasted with realist and reducti...

New ACPQ article

My article “Kripke, Ross, and the Immaterial Aspects of Thought” appears in the latest issue of the American Catholic Philosophical Q...

Sunday, February 10, 2013

Around the net

I’m a bit “Nagel-ed out” at the moment, but before long I’ll be writing up at least one or two more installments in my series of posts...

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Stan Lee meets F. A. Hayek

Recently I’ve been reading Sean Howe’s terrific Marvel Comics: The Untold Story . The broad outlines of the history of the company --...

Upcoming lectures

As I announced last month , next week I’ll be in Oxford speaking on the theme “Aquinas and the Immaterial Aspects of Thought,” as part o...

Sunday, February 3, 2013

Craig versus Rosenberg

Theist philosopher William Lane Craig debated atheist philosopher Alex Rosenberg at Purdue University on February 1. You can watch th...

Thursday, January 31, 2013

Metaphysical middle man

As I’ve noted many times (e.g. here ), when a thinker like Aquinas describes God as the First Cause, what is meant is not merely “first” in...

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

God and man at HuffPo

Over at The Huffington Post , Rabbi Adam Jacobs defends the cosmological argument for the existence of God , kindly citing yours truly a...

Friday, January 25, 2013

Mumford on metaphysics

In another in a series of excellent interviews with contemporary philosophers, 3:AM Magazine’s witty and well-informed Richard Marsha...

Monday, January 21, 2013

Schliesser on the Evolutionary Argument against Naturalism

I commented recently on the remarks about Thomas Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos made by Eric Schliesser over at the New APPS blog. Schlies...

Saturday, January 12, 2013

Around the web

Still busy trying to meet a looming deadline and prepare for a conference next week, so expect posting to be light for a few more days...

Monday, January 7, 2013

Oerter on inertial motion and angels

Last week I linked to my paper “The Medieval Principle of Motion and the Modern Principle of Inertia,” which appears in Volume 10 of t...

Friday, January 4, 2013

Blackfriars Aquinas Seminar

Readers in England might be interested to know that on February 14 I will be speaking at Blackfriars, Oxford University , as part of th...

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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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