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)

Friday, August 31, 2018

Finnis contra Francis

Prof. John Finnis is the most eminent living “new natural law” theorist, and a longtime opponent of capital punishment. Indeed, like...

Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Hubris meets nemesis? (Updated)

UPDATE 8/29: More from the Cupich interview. Has to be seen to be believed . The pattern is by now familiar. Serious criticisms ar...

Monday, August 20, 2018

The Immateriality of the Mind

At the Society of Catholic Scientists meeting at Catholic University of America last June, I gave the keynote address on the topic ...

Saturday, August 18, 2018

Review of Pinker’s Enlightenment Now (Updated)

UPDATE: The review has now been unlocked and can be read for free at the CRB website. My review of Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment No...

Wednesday, August 15, 2018

An Open Appeal to the Cardinals of the Church

An international group of 45 Catholic scholars and clergy has signed an appeal to the cardinals of the Catholic Church, calling on the...

Wednesday, August 8, 2018

Three problems with the change to the Catechism (Updated)

UPDATE 8/13: The Stream recently interviewed me about the change to the Catechism. In a new article at Catholic Herald , I analyze...

Friday, August 3, 2018

Pope Francis and capital punishment

Pope Francis has changed the Catechism ’s teaching on capital punishment so that it now flatly rules out the practice as “inadmissibl...

Wednesday, August 1, 2018

Tugwell on St. Albert on negative theology

Negative theology is a crucial component of classical theism . To a first approximation, the idea is that at least with respect to s...

Thursday, July 26, 2018

Five Proofs on radio

Last week I appeared on The Drew Marshall Show to discuss Five Proofs of the Existence of God . You can listen to the episode here ....

Friday, July 20, 2018

Fallacies physicists fall for

In his essay “Quantum Mechanics and Ontology” in his anthology Philosophy in an Age of Science , Hilary Putnam notes that “mathematica...

Thursday, July 12, 2018

Crane and French on science and Aristotelianism

I called attention recently to the new anthology Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science , edited by William Simpson, Ro...

Friday, July 6, 2018

Laws of nature at Fermilab

Recently I spent a day at Fermilab and gave a talk on the topic ”What is a Law of Nature?” I had a wonderful time and thank the kin...

Tuesday, July 3, 2018

The ad hominem fallacy is a sin

An argumentum ad hominem (or “argument to the man”) is the fallacy committed when, instead of addressing the merits of an argument so...

Sunday, June 24, 2018

Around the web

Stephen French reviews William Simpson, Robert Koons, and Nicholas Teh’s anthology Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Scie...

Wednesday, June 20, 2018

Gödel and the mechanization of thought

At the recent Society of Catholic Scientists conference , Peter Koellner gave a lucid presentation on the relevance of Gödel’s incompl...

Thursday, June 14, 2018

The two Cartesian worlds

The “interaction problem” is traditionally regarded as the main objection to Descartes’ brand of dualism. I’ve discussed it many tim...

Wednesday, June 6, 2018

Talk amongst yourselves

We’re due for another open thread, so here goes. That threadjacking comment of yours from two weeks ago that got deleted? Repost i...

Monday, May 28, 2018

Musical chairs brains minds

Comics, like science fiction, can be a great source for philosophical thought experiments. Recently I’ve been re-reading one of the ...

Sunday, May 20, 2018

The Church permits criticism of popes under certain circumstances

Fathers have the authority to teach and discipline their children, but this authority is not absolute. They may not teach their chil...

Thursday, May 17, 2018

Aquinas on the human soul

My article “Aquinas on the Human Soul” appears in the anthology The Blackwell Companion to Substance Dualism , edited by Jonathan Loos...

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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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