Edward Feser

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Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Five Proofs around the net

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Strange Notions has kindly hosted a Q and A on my book Five Proofs of the Existence of God (which you can order either from Amazon ...
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Monday, October 30, 2017

A further reply to Fastiggi, etc.

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In an article at Catholic World Report , Robert Fastiggi is critical of the position I have taken vis-à-vis Pope Francis and capital p...
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Sunday, October 29, 2017

McClamrock on By Man shall His Blood Be Shed

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At Today’s Catholic , David McClamrock reviews By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed: A Catholic Defense of Capital Punishment .  It’s a some...
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Thursday, October 26, 2017

Around the web with Five Proofs

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At The Secular Outpost , atheist Bradley Bowen inaugurates what promises to be an interesting series of posts on Five Proofs of the Ex...
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Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Five Proofs on The Patrick Coffin Show

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A few weeks ago, I was interviewed by Patrick Coffin before a live audience for a special episode of his show.  The subjects were my b...
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Saturday, October 21, 2017

Reply to Ivereigh, Brugger, Shea, and Fastiggi

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My recent Catholic Herald article about Pope Francis and capital punishment has gotten a fair bit of attention.  Some of it has been...
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Sunday, October 15, 2017

Pope Francis on capital punishment

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Pope Francis has made news with his recent remarks about capital punishment and the catechism.  They are seriously problematic.  In an ...
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Five Proofs with Prager et al. (UPDATED)

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UPDATE 10/17: You can now hear the Prager show interview online .  This Tuesday, Oct. 17, at 11 am PT, I will appear on The Dennis P...
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Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Liberty, equality, fraternity?

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Pictured above are the ideals of the French Revolution, and of the modern world in general – liberty, equality, and fraternity.  Note ca...
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Sunday, October 8, 2017

Coming to a campus near you

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On Thursday, October 19, I will be giving a talk on the topic of scientism at UC Berkeley, sponsored by the Thomistic Institute.  Deta...
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Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Reading Religion on By Man

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At Reading Religion , a publication of the American Academy of Religion, Daniel Lendman reviews By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed: A Cath...
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Monday, October 2, 2017

Five Proofs on The Daily Wire

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Last week I did a Skype interview with The Daily Wire ’s Ben Shapiro.  The interview has now been posted at Ben’s Facebook page.  (Yo...
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Saturday, September 30, 2017

Aristotle on Medved

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Yesterday I appeared on The Michael Medved Show with Skeptic magazine’s Michael Shermer.  (Unfortunately, the podcast seems to be be...
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Friday, September 29, 2017

Ward on Scholastic Metaphysics

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In the Winter 2017 issue of Pro Ecclesia , Baylor University philosopher Thomas M. Ward kindly reviews my book Scholastic Metaphysics...
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Tuesday, September 26, 2017

This week in radio

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Having recommended my book The Last Superstition in a recent podcast, in yesterday’s show Ben Shapiro kindly recommended Five Proofs...
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Monday, September 25, 2017

Review of Leroi’s The Lagoon

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My review of Armand Marie Leroi’s excellent book The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science appears in the September issue of Isis: ...
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Friday, September 22, 2017

Thought-free blogs

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Perhaps the most vivid manifestation of the cluelessness of New Atheists is their strange compulsion to comment at length on books the...
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Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Conversations with Klavan et al.

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My recent interview on Daily Wire’s The Andrew Klavan Show has now been posted.  You can hear the audio at the Daily Wire website or...
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Friday, September 15, 2017

McGinn on mind and space

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Thoughts and experiences seem to lack spatial location.  It makes sense to say of a certain cluster of neurons firing that they are lo...
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Monday, September 11, 2017

Radio activity

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Today on his Daily Wire podcast , Ben Shapiro kindly recommended my book The Last Superstition , characterizing it as “really fantast...
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Friday, September 8, 2017

Walter Becker (1950 – 2017)

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The Steely Dan sound is well known to anyone who has heard even one or two of the band’s best known songs, and founders Donald Fagen a...
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Saturday, September 2, 2017

Flew on Hume on miracles

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Having looked recently at David Hume on induction and Hume on causation , let’s take a look at Hume’s famous treatment of miracles.  ...
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Thursday, August 31, 2017

The latest on Five Proofs and By Man

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Some early reactions to Five Proofs of the Existence of God : At Catholic Answers Live , Karlo Broussard describes it as “a phenomena...
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Friday, August 25, 2017

Hey, kids! Links!

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Philosophy Now interviews Raymond Tallis about his major new book on the philosophy of time.  At The Guardian , Tallis on how he wri...
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Friday, August 18, 2017

Five Proofs is out (Updated)

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UPDATE 8/22: Some readers will be interested to learn that Ignatius Press is now offering an electronic version of the book . My ne...
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Thursday, August 17, 2017

Jacobs on By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed

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At Crisis magazine , philosopher James Jacobs reviews By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed: A Catholic Defense of Capital Punishment .  Fro...
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Friday, August 11, 2017

Rucker’s Mindscape

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In his book Infinity and the Mind   (which you can read online at his website ), Rudy Rucker puts forward the notion of what he calls ...
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Tuesday, August 8, 2017

Capital punishment with Patrick Coffin

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Recently I did a long Skype interview about By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed: A Catholic Defense of Capital Punishment for The Patr...
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Monday, August 7, 2017

Capital punishment with Prager (UPDATED)

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UPDATE 8/9: You can now hear the interview online here . Tomorrow, Tuesday, August 8 at 11 am PT, Joe Bessette and I will be on The ...
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Friday, August 4, 2017

Capital punishment on EWTN

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Yesterday, Joe Bessette and I appeared on EWTN’s The World Over with Raymond Arroyo to discuss our book By Man Shall His Blood Be She...
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Saturday, July 29, 2017

Cartesian angelism

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Angels, as Aquinas and other Scholastic theologians conceive of them, are purely intellectual substances, minds separated from matter....
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Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Capital punishment on radio and TV

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Tomorrow, Thursday, July 27 at 1:40 pm PT, I’ll be on The Ed Morrissey Show to discuss By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed .  On the same ...
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Thursday, July 20, 2017

Msgr. Swetland’s confusions

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Msgr. Stuart Swetland is a theologian and the president of Donnelly College.  You might recall that, almost a year ago, he gained some...
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Friday, July 14, 2017

Essence and existence

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Recently, Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh, NY hosted a workshop on the theme Aquinas on Metaphysics .  I spoke on the topic of “T...
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McCaffrey and Murray on By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed

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At Catholic Media Apostolate , Roger McCaffrey and Fr. Gerald Murray discuss my book (co-authored with Joseph Bessette) By Man Shall H...
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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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