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, March 29, 2019

Artificial intelligence and magical thinking

Arthur C. Clarke famously said that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Is this true? That dep...

Sunday, March 24, 2019

New volume on philosophers and Catholicism

Faith and Reason: Philosophers Explain Their Turn to Catholicism , an anthology edited by Brian Besong and Jonathan Fuqua, will be out...

Monday, March 18, 2019

Five Proofs on radio

Recently, John DeRosa interviewed me for the Classical Theism Podcast . You can listen to the interview here . We discuss my book ...

Thursday, March 14, 2019

Wrath darkens the mind

A straw man fallacy is committed when you attack a caricature of what your opponent has said rather than addressing his actual vie...

Sunday, March 10, 2019

2019 Aquinas Lecture

In January I gave the 2019 Aquinas Lecture at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, on the theme “Classical Theism and the Nature ...

Monday, March 4, 2019

ORDER NOW: Aristotle’s Revenge (Updated)

UPDATE 3/9: A reader points out that another option, for readers anywhere in the world, is to order through Book Depository . You...

Friday, March 1, 2019

Byrne on gender identity

What is it to have a “gender identity”? At Arc Digital , Alex Byrne examines some proposed definitions of the concept and common ass...

Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Surfing the web

At First Things , R. R. Reno concludes that Francis’s papacy is failing . Cardinal Gerhard Müller issues a “manifesto of faith” to a...

Saturday, February 16, 2019

Abortion and culpability

Yesterday at The Corner , Ramesh Ponnuru responded to a reader who criticizes opponents of abortion who express special outrage at lat...

Thursday, February 14, 2019

The latest on Five Proofs

My book Five Proofs of the Existence of God is briefly reviewed by Christopher McCaffery in the March 2019 issue of First Things . ...

Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Socialism versus the family

Yesterday I gave a talk at the Heritage Foundation on the topic “Socialism versus the Family.” You can watch the lecture on YouTub...

Wednesday, February 6, 2019

Adventures in the Old Atheism, Part III: Freud

Our sojourn among the Old Atheists was briefer than I’d intended. To my great surprise, I see that the previous installment in thi...

Monday, January 28, 2019

Early 2019 speaking engagements

I recently got back from Blackfriars in Oxford, where I gave talks on classical theism and cooperation with evil . This Thursda...

Saturday, January 26, 2019

The Bizarro world of left-wing politics

I have only a little to add to what others have already said about the Kafkaesque Covington affair. There were, as you all know by n...

Sunday, January 20, 2019

Washburn contra the “new natural lawyers”

I highly recommend theologian Christian Washburn’s excellent article “The New Natural Lawyers, Contraception, Capital Punishment, an...

Friday, January 11, 2019

Materialism subverts itself

A naïve understanding of materialism attributes to it a naïve understanding of matter. Matter, common sense says, is more or less the...

Friday, January 4, 2019

Finnis on capital punishment (Updated)

John Finnis holds that the Catholic Church could reverse her traditional teaching that capital punishment can be legitimate in princip...

Thursday, December 27, 2018

The sexual revolution devours its children

In two recent posts, we looked at philosopher Alex Byrne’s criticisms of claims made by some transgender activists to the effect that ...

Sunday, December 23, 2018

Christmas every day

A Protestant friend once asked me what the point is of the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation. Why is it so important to think t...

Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Immateriality in Rome

Earlier this month I gave a talk on “The Immateriality of the Intellect” at a conference on neuroscience and the soul held at the Ang...

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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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