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)

Saturday, November 28, 2015

The Telegraph on Scholastic Metaphysics

At The Daily Telegraph , Christopher Howse kindly calls attention to my book Scholastic Metaphysics , which he describes as follows: ...

Saturday, November 21, 2015

Papal fallibility (Updated)

Catholic doctrine on the teaching authority of the pope is pretty clear, but lots of people badly misunderstand it. A non-Catholic fr...

Monday, November 16, 2015

Augustine on semantic indeterminacy

St. Augustine’s dialogue The Teacher is concerned with the nature of language. There are several passages in it which address what t...

Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Long list o’ links

You’ve long longed for a list of links. And it’s been a long time since I listed any links. So here’s a long list of long longed-for...

Thursday, November 5, 2015

Dumsday and Vallicella on Neo-Scholastic Essays

At Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews , philosopher Travis Dumsday kindly reviews my book Neo-Scholastic Essays . From the review: ...

Thursday, October 29, 2015

Red herrings don’t go to heaven either

They say that pride goeth before a fall. And if you’re Jerry Coyne, every fall goeth before an even bigger fall. The poor guy just n...

Friday, October 23, 2015

Repressed knowledge of God? Part II

We’ve been discussing the thesis that human beings have a natural inclination toward theism, and that atheism, accordingly, involves a...

Monday, October 19, 2015

Koukl responds (Updated)

Christian apologist Greg Koukl kindly sent me a response to my recent post about the discussion generated by his recent comments ab...

Friday, October 16, 2015

Repressed knowledge of God?

Christian apologist Greg Koukl, appealing to Romans 1:18-20, says that the atheist is “denying the obvious, aggressively pushing down...

Friday, October 9, 2015

Walter Mitty atheism

While writing up my recent post on Jerry Coyne’s defense of his fellow New Atheist Lawrence Krauss, I thought: “Why can’t these guys ...

Sunday, October 4, 2015

Why can’t these guys stay on topic? Or read?

Jerry Coyne comments on my recent Public Discourse article about Lawrence Krauss . Well, sort of. Readers of that article will rec...

Monday, September 28, 2015

Harvard talk

This Friday, October 2, I will be giving a talk at Harvard University, sponsored by the Harvard Catholic Student Association and the J...

Sunday, September 27, 2015

All Scientists Should Beg Lawrence Krauss to Shut the Hell Up Already

In The New Yorker , physicist and professional amateur philosopher Lawrence Krauss calls on all scientists to become “militant atheist...

Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Poverty no, inequality si

Philosopher Harry Frankfurt is famous for his expertise in detecting bullshit . In a new book he sniffs out an especially noxious in...

Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Risible animals

Just for laughs, one more brief post on the philosophy of humor. (Two recent previous posts on the subject can be found here and her...

Tuesday, September 8, 2015

The absolute truth about relativism

I don’t write very often about relativism. Part of the reason is that few if any of the critics I find myself engaging with -- for ex...

Friday, September 4, 2015

Pigliucci logic

In a recent article (to which I linked last week ), philosopher Massimo Pigliucci wrote: [W]hile some people may very well be “Is...

Friday, August 28, 2015

The comedy keeps coming

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, but while we’re on the subject of humor , here’s another mistake that is often made in discus...

Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Dragging the net

My recent Claremont Review of Books review of Scruton’s Soul of the World and Wilson’s The Meaning of Human Existence is now availa...

Thursday, August 20, 2015

Is it funny because it’s true?

In a recent article in National Review , Ian Tuttle tells us that “standup comedy is colliding with progressivism.” He notes that com...

Religion and the Social Sciences

Check out the recently published Religion and the Social Sciences: Conversations with Robert Bellah and Christian Smith , edited by R. R....

Thursday, August 13, 2015

Marriage inflation

When everyone is somebody, then no one’s anybody . W. S. Gilbert, The Gondoliers Lake Wobegon, where all the women are stron...

Thursday, August 6, 2015

Unintuitive metaphysics

At Aeon , philosopher Elijah Millgram comments on metaphysics and the contemporary analytic philosopher’s penchant for appealing to i...

Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Empiricism and sola scriptura redux

After my recent series of long posts on sola scriptura ( here , here , and here ), I fear that you, dear reader, may be starting to f...

Thursday, July 23, 2015

Fulford on sola scriptura, Part II

Let’s return to Andrew Fulford’s reply at The Calvinist International to my recent post on Feyerabend, empiricism, and sola scriptur...

Saturday, July 18, 2015

Fulford on sola scriptura, Part I

At The Calvinist International, Andrew Fulford replies to my recent post on Feyerabend, empiricism, and sola scriptura . You’ll reca...

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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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