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)

Monday, September 22, 2014

Review of Jaworski

My review of William Jaworski’s Philosophy of Mind: A Comprehensive Introduction appears in the latest issue (Vol. 88, No. 3) of the ...

Friday, September 19, 2014

Q.E.D.?

The Catholic Church makes some bold claims about what can be known about God via unaided reason. The First Vatican Council teaches : ...

Thursday, September 18, 2014

The straw man that will not die

What’s more tiresome than reading yet another brain-dead atheist attack on the “Everything has a cause” straw man? Having to write u...

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Try a damn link

An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics , James Franklin’s recent book, is reviewed at The New Criterion . Mike in/on m...

Thursday, September 11, 2014

Symington on Scholastic Metaphysics

At Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews , philosopher Paul Symington kindly reviews my book Scholastic Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introd...

Saturday, September 6, 2014

Marmodoro on PSR and PC

Philosopher Anna Marmodoro is an important contributor to the current debate within metaphysics over powers and dispositions, and edi...

Monday, September 1, 2014

Olson contra classical theism

A reader asks me to comment on this blog post by Baptist theologian Prof. Roger Olson, which pits what Olson calls “intuitive” theolo...

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Morrissey on Scholastic Metaphysics

At Catholic World Report , Prof. Christopher Morrissey kindly reviews my book Scholastic Metaphysics . From the review: The great...

Thursday, August 21, 2014

Science dorks

Suppose you’re trying to teach basic arithmetic to someone who has gotten it into his head that the whole subject is “unscientific,” o...

Saturday, August 16, 2014

Carroll on Scholastic Metaphysics

At Public Discourse , William Carroll kindly reviews my book Scholastic Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction . From the review: ...

Tuesday, August 12, 2014

You’re not who you think you are

If I’m not me, who the hell am I? Douglas Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger) in Total Recall If you know the work of Philip K. Di...

Sunday, August 10, 2014

Around the web

Back from a very pleasant (but exhausting!) week in Princeton . While I regroup, some reading to wind down the summer: Andrew Fu...

Friday, August 1, 2014

Haldane on Nagel and the Fifth Way

Next week I’ll be at the Thomistic Seminar organized by John Haldane. Haldane’s article “Realism, Mind, and Evolution” appeared las...

Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Logorrhea in the cell

In a recent post I commented on a remark made in one of the comboxes by a reader sympathetic to “Intelligent Design” (ID) theory. At the ...

Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Marvel Team-Up: Spider-Man and The Patriarchy

It isn’t news that fathers are often portrayed as doofuses in pop culture. An interesting aspect of the Spider-Man movies is how agg...

Saturday, July 26, 2014

Signature in the cell?

In the combox of my recent post comparing the New Atheism and ID theory to different players in a game of Where’s Waldo? , a reader ...

Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Where’s God?

Here’s an analogy that occurs to me as a way of thinking about some of the main issues debated here on the blog over the years. Suppo...

Sunday, July 20, 2014

Back from Berkeley

Got back last night from the very fine DSPT conference on the relationship between philosophy and theology in Berkeley. The main pre...

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

I link, therefore I am

This week: DSPT conference on philosophy and theology in Berkeley. See you there. John Searle, who will be speaking at the conf...

Saturday, July 12, 2014

Clarke on the stock caricature of First Cause arguments

W. Norris Clarke’s article “A Curious Blind Spot in the Anglo-American Tradition of Antitheistic Argument” first appeared in The Monis...

Saturday, July 5, 2014

Carroll on laws and causation

People have been asking me to comment on the remarks about causation made by atheist physicist Sean Carroll during his recent debate w...

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...

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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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