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)

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Jerry-built atheism

David Bentley Hart’s recent book The Experience of God has been getting some attention. The highly esteemed William Carroll has an a...

Saturday, January 25, 2014

Estranged notions

Strange Notions is a website devoted to discussion between Catholics and atheists and operated by Brandon Vogt. It’s a worthwhile en...

Thursday, January 23, 2014

The pointlessness of Jerry Coyne

People have asked me to comment on the recent spat between Jerry Coyne and Ross Douthat . As longtime readers of this blog know from...

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

DSPT colloquium 2014

The Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley, CA will be hosting a colloquium on the theme “What Has Athens to Do with ...

Friday, January 17, 2014

Oderberg reflects on Lowe

The following is a guest post by David S. Oderberg on the life, work, and legacy of the late E. Jonathan Lowe (pictured at left), who ...

Sunday, January 12, 2014

Does existence exist?

Existence exists . Ayn Rand Existence does not exist . Cardinal Cajetan Both Rand’s statement and Cajetan’s sound very odd...

Thursday, January 9, 2014

2014 Aquinas Workshop

Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh, NY will be hosting the Fourth Annual Philosophy Workshop on the theme “Aquinas on God” from Jun...

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

E. J. Lowe (1950 - 2014)

Philosopher E. J. Lowe has died . A neo-Aristotelian of sorts, he was one of the most important metaphysicians in contemporary philos...

Sunday, January 5, 2014

Nagel on Nozick

Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State, and Utopia has recently been reissued with a new Foreword by Thomas Nagel. You can read the Foreword...

Monday, December 30, 2013

Da Ya Think I’m Sphexy?

Sphex is a genus of wasp which Douglas Hofstadter, Daniel Dennett, and other writers on cognitive science and philosophy of mind have...

Thursday, December 26, 2013

A complex god with a god complex

I thank Dale Tuggy for his two-part reply to my most recent remarks about his criticisms of classical theism, and I thank him also fo...

Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Peter Geach (1916 - 2013)

Commonweal reports that Peter Geach -- philosopher, one of the fathers of “analytical Thomism,” husband of Elizabeth Anscombe (with ...

Thursday, December 19, 2013

Zombies: A Shopper’s Guide

A “zombie,” in the philosophical sense of the term, is a creature physically and behaviorally identical to a human being but devoid of...

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Churning out links

At First Things , philosopher Patrick Toner takes issue with a recent biography of painter Norman Rockwell. David Oderberg’s art...

Friday, December 13, 2013

Present perfect

Dale Tuggy has replied to my remarks about his criticism of the classical theist position that God is not merely “a being” alongside...

Monday, December 9, 2013

Back from Cologne

Back today from an excellent conference on the theme “New Scholastic Meets Analytic Philosophy” hosted by the Lindenthal Institut, wi...

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Dude, where’s my Being?

It must be Kick-a-Neo-Scholastic week. Thomas Cothran calls us Nietzscheans and now my old grad school buddy Dale Tuggy implicitly l...

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives in Metaphysics

My article “Being, the Good, and the Guise of the Good” appears in the volume Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives in Metaphysics , edited by...

Thursday, November 28, 2013

Nietzschean natural law?

Some years ago, at an initially friendly dinner after a conference, I sat next to a fellow Catholic academic, to whom I mildly express...

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Averroism and cloud computing

The Latin followers of the medieval Islamic philosopher Ibn Rushd or Averroes (1126 - 1198), such as Siger of Brabant , famously taug...

Saturday, November 16, 2013

FORTHCOMING: Scholastic Metaphysics

I’ve had a number of book projects in the works for a while, one of which, my edited volume Aristotle on Method and Metaphysics , appe...

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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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