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, November 26, 2014

Interview with the metaphysician

Recently I was interviewed by two different websites about Scholastic Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction . Both interviews have...

Friday, November 21, 2014

Augustine on the immateriality of the mind

In Book 10, Chapter 10 of On the Trinity , St. Augustine argues for the immateriality of the mind. You can find an older translation ...

Saturday, November 15, 2014

DSPT symposium papers online (Updated)

Last week’s symposium at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley was on Fr. Anselm Ramelow’s anthology God, Reaso...

Sunday, November 9, 2014

DSPT interviews (Updated)

Back from another very pleasant and profitable visit to the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley. Many thanks to ...

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Walking the web

Bishop Athanasius Schneider is interviewed about the recent Synod on the Family . On the now notorious interim report: “This document...

Sunday, November 2, 2014

Voluntarism and PSR

Aquinas holds that “will follows upon intellect” ( Summa Theologiae I.19.1). He means in part that anything with an intellect has a ...

Friday, October 24, 2014

Nudge nudge, wink wink

Suppose you go out on a blind date and a friend asks you how it went. You pause and then answer flatly, with a slight smirk: “Well, I...

Thursday, October 16, 2014

Could a theist deny PSR?

We’ve been talking about the principle of sufficient reason (PSR). It plays a key role in some arguments for the existence of God, w...

Friday, October 10, 2014

Della Rocca on PSR

The principle of sufficient reason (PSR), in a typical Neo-Scholastic formulation, states that “there is a sufficient reason or adequa...

Friday, October 3, 2014

Meta-comedy

While we’re on the subject of Steve Martin , consider the following passage from his memoir Born Standing Up . Martin recounts the in...

Saturday, September 27, 2014

Thomas Aquinas, Henry Adams, Steve Martin

In his conceptual travelogue Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres -- first distributed privately in 1904, then published in 1913 -- histori...

Wednesday, September 24, 2014

DSPT Symposium

God, Reason and Reality is a new anthology edited by Anselm Ramelow. In addition to Fr. Ramelow, the contributors include Robert Sok...

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 ...

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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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