Monday, June 30, 2014

SCOTUS and Oderberg

›
Today, with Burwell v. Hobby Lobby , the Supreme Court of the United States has partially redeemed itself after its disgraceful 2012 O...
208 comments:
Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Pagden on the Enlightenment

›
Prof. Anthony Pagden’s recent book The Enlightenment: And Why It Still Matters has much to say not only about the Enlightenment itsel...
58 comments:
Thursday, June 19, 2014

The last enemy

›
There are two sorts of people who might be tempted to think of death as a friend: those who think the nature of the human person has n...
295 comments:
Monday, June 16, 2014

Summer web surfing

›
My Claremont Review of Books review of John Gray’s The Silence of Animals is now available for free online . Keith Parsons has ...
78 comments:
Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Sullivan’s cavils

›
I thank The Smithy’s Michael Sullivan for his two spirited further installments ( here and here ) in his series of posts on my book S...
76 comments:
Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Judging a book by what it doesn’t cover

›
In his encyclical Aeterni Patris , Pope Leo XIII called for a “restoration of Christian philosophy.” He was quite specific about what ...
192 comments:

Review of Gray etc.

›
Readers of the Claremont Review of Books may want to look for my review of John Gray’s book The Silence of Animals: On Progress and ...
10 comments:
Friday, May 30, 2014

Sexual cant from the asexual Kant

›
Kant never married and apparently died a virgin.  He is sometimes described as having had a low opinion of sex, on the basis of passag...
238 comments:
Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Linked in

›
Two new papers from David Oderberg: “Is Form Structure?” and “The Metaphysics of Privation.” Donald Devine and I have been debat...
41 comments:
Saturday, May 24, 2014

This is philosophy?

›
This is Philosophy is a new introduction to the subject by Prof. Steven Hales.  A reader calls my attention to the book’s companion w...
122 comments:
Thursday, May 22, 2014

New Scholastic books

›
The old Scholastic manuals of the first half or so of the twentieth century are often hard to find, though fortunately many are now be...
54 comments:
Friday, May 16, 2014

Pre-Christian apologetics

›
Christianity did not arise in a vacuum.  The very first Christians debated with their opponents in a cultural context within which eve...
422 comments:
Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Dominicans Interactive reviews Aquinas

›
Dominicans Interactive is a new online initiative of the Irish Dominicans.  (Check out their Facebook page and website .)  Today the ...
45 comments:
Friday, May 9, 2014

Miracles, ID, and classical theism

›
The esteemed Lydia McGrew, a friend of this blog, wonders whether my defense of classical theism and criticisms of “Intelligent Desi...
122 comments:
Tuesday, May 6, 2014

A second exchange with Keith Parsons, Part II

›
Prof. Keith Parsons has posted his own opening statement in our second exchange, which is devoted to the topic of atheism, naturalism...
25 comments:
Friday, May 2, 2014

School’s out forever?

›
John Farrell, Forbes science blogger extraordinaire (and friend of this blog), comments on my recent talk at Thomas Aquinas College, over...
197 comments:
Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Corrupting the Calvinist youth [UPDATED]

›
Some guy named “Steve” who contributes to the group apologetics blog Triablogue informs us that “Feser seems to have a following amon...
123 comments:
Friday, April 25, 2014

A second exchange with Keith Parsons, Part I

›
I’d like once again to thank Keith Parsons, and moderator Jeffery Jay Lowder, for the very fruitful first exchange we had a few weeks ...
128 comments:
Friday, April 18, 2014

God’s wounds

›
The God of classical theism -- of Athanasius and Augustine, Avicenna and Maimonides, Anselm and Aquinas -- is (among other things) pu...
94 comments:
Friday, April 11, 2014

What We Owe the New Atheists

›
Last week I gave a lecture at Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, CA, on the theme “What We Owe the New Atheists.”  You can read th...
488 comments: