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Edward Feser

Edward Feser teaches philosophy at Pasadena City College in Pasadena, California. He has been a visiting assistant professor at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and a visiting scholar at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of California at Santa Barbara, an M.A. in religion from the Claremont Graduate School, and a B.A. in philosophy and religious studies from the California State University at Fullerton.

Called by National Review "one of the best contemporary writers on philosophy," Feser is the author of On Nozick, Philosophy of Mind, Locke, and The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism, and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Hayek. He is also the author of many academic articles. His primary academic research interests are in the philosophy of mind, moral and political philosophy, and the philosophy of religion.

Feser also writes on politics and culture, from a conservative point of view; and on religion, from a traditional Roman Catholic perspective. In this connection, his work has appeared in such publications as The American Conservative, City Journal, Crisis, National Review, New Oxford Review, Reason, and TCS Daily.

He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and four children.

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Articles

• Review of The Grand Design, November 17, 2010
• What counts as a lie?, November 15, 2010
• The murderer at the door, November 11, 2010
• There is no Santa clause, November 9, 2010
• Is it wrong to lie to HAL?, November 6, 2010
• Hayek and Keynes: The rematch, November 4, 2010
• The catastrophic spider, October 30, 2010
• God, obligation, and the Euthyphro dilemma, October 26, 2010
• Law’s “evil-god challenge”, October 19, 2010
• Classical theism, atheism, and the Godfather trilogy, October 17, 2010
• Very informal fallacies, October 13, 2010
• God, man, and classical theism, October 8, 2010
• What is classical theism?, September 30, 2010
• Art and meta-art, September 20, 2010
• Pop culture and the lure of Platonism, September 7, 2010
• The Metaphysics of Thelonious Monk, September 1, 2010
• Goo goo ga ga, August 21, 2010
• Happy Consequentialism Day!, August 9, 2010
• Some thoughts on the Prop 8 decision, August 5, 2010
• Pick-up lines from the philosophers, July 18, 2010
• When Frank jilted Mary, July 9, 2010
• What dualism is not, June 23, 2010
• Hitchens versus Haldane, June 19, 2010
• Teleology in Philosophia Christi, June 15, 2010
• Chomsky on the mind-body problem, June 12, 2010
• God and possible worlds, June 10, 2010
• The Metaphysics of The Fly, May 25, 2010
• Divine simplicity and divine freedom, May 18, 2010
• Oderberg on the mainstream media, May 15, 2010
• God, man, and masculinity, May 14, 2010
• The metaphysics of the Martini revisited, April 29, 2010
• ID, A-T, and Duns Scotus: A further reply to Torley, April 26, 2010
• Scruton’s Gifford lectures, April 23, 2010
• Dembski rolls snake eyes, April 20, 2010
• First Things on AQUINAS, April 19, 2010
• Cudworth and Fuller respond, April 18, 2010
• ID theory, Aquinas, and the origin of life: A reply to Torley, April 17, 2010
• “Intelligent Design” theory and mechanism, April 10, 2010
• “Nothing but”, April 9, 2010
• The meaning of the Resurrection, April 4, 2010
• The meaning of the Passion, April 2, 2010
• “We are at war with Eastasia. We have always been at war with Eastasia.”, March 30, 2010
• Stupak’s enablers?, March 29, 2010
• The New Philistinism, March 26, 2010
• Oderberg on the First Way, March 19, 2010
• Recovering Sight after Scientism, March 12, 2010
• Blinded by Scientism, March 9, 2010
• Scholastic’s Bookshelf, March 5, 2010
• What’s black and white and misread all over?, February 26, 2010
• The Nightfly: Vatican approved!, February 22, 2010
• More on the Trinity and mystery, February 19, 2010
• Happy Valentine's Day, February 15, 2010
• Dawkins on omnipotence and omniscience, February 14, 2010
• Speaking from ignorance, February 13, 2010
• Trinity and mystery (UPDATED), February 11, 2010
• More on teleology and eliminative materialism, February 5, 2010
• The Leiter side of OCD, February 2, 2010
• Plotinus on divine simplicity and modernity, February 1, 2010
• Hayek and Keynes bust a rhyme, January 27, 2010
• Twilight of the Mad Men, January 22, 2010
• “I think we're on the verge of a major philosophical shift in biology”, January 12, 2010
• The ethics of property, January 6, 2010
• AQUINAS: Best of 2009, December 31, 2009
• Churchland on dualism, December 29, 2009
• The evolution of liberalism (and “conservatism”), December 28, 2009
• Don’t necessarily trust the experts, December 16, 2009
• Trust the experts, December 13, 2009
• Misinformation campaign, December 12, 2009
• Rosenberg responds to his critics, December 11, 2009
• Nagel on ID, December 6, 2009
• Spectaclism versus naturalism, December 3, 2009
• Rosenberg on naturalism, December 2, 2009
• Anderson’s Pure, November 27, 2009
• Plato’s affinity argument, November 19, 2009
• An ambiguous conservative, November 16, 2009
• The Greek atomists and the god of Paley, November 7, 2009
• The trouble with William Paley, November 5, 2009
• William Lane Craig on divine simplicity, November 1, 2009
• Mao-Maoing the Beck watchers, October 22, 2009
• The Thomistic tradition, October 19, 2009
• Scruton mania [UPDATED], October 17, 2009
• Libertarian neutrality so-called, October 12, 2009
• In other news, Edward Feser has been awarded the Dawkins Prize…, October 9, 2009
• Fossils and Frankenstein monsters, October 4, 2009
• Four approaches to teleology, October 1, 2009
• The difference between McCarthyism and liberalism, September 26, 2009
• Teleology revisited, September 25, 2009
• Now available: AQUINAS, September 19, 2009
• Schrödinger, Democritus, and the paradox of materialism, September 13, 2009
• Manzi on the Wright-Coyne dispute, September 7, 2009
• Steely Dan contra Roger Scruton, August 29, 2009
• Is self-ownership axiomatic?, August 25, 2009
• TLS on radio, August 25, 2009
• Derbyshire encounters Gottfried, August 24, 2009
• Rothbard revisited, August 24, 2009
• Rubber souls, August 18, 2009
• Cothran on TLS, August 17, 2009
• The Marxist and the libertarian, August 8, 2009
• Mass for clunkers, August 7, 2009
• Monton on ID, August 5, 2009
• Superheroes and sentimentality, August 5, 2009
• Rorschach test, August 2, 2009
• If Confucius or Aristotle did stand-up…, July 29, 2009
• Hitting the metaphysical snooze button, July 20, 2009
• TLS on radio, July 18, 2009
• Declining standards, July 15, 2009
• Latest reviews of TLS, July 13, 2009
• Richard’s Holiday Camp, June 29, 2009
• The materialist shell game, June 24, 2009
• Hume, science, and religion, June 17, 2009
• You can’t make this stuff up, folks (Part 2), June 14, 2009
• You can’t make this stuff up, folks, June 13, 2009
• But seriously, ladies and degenerates…, June 12, 2009
• Libel’s in the air!, June 10, 2009
• Thoughts on Trinity Sunday, June 8, 2009
• Zmirak on Tiller, June 7, 2009
• Leftist lawyers for libel [Updated], June 6, 2009
• Leiter hits new low. In other news, sky is blue, water wet…, June 5, 2009
• Envoy Institute conference, June 5, 2009
• Dueling bloggers, June 4, 2009
• Two monsters, June 2, 2009
• Book of the Year, May 30, 2009
• Woods on TLS, May 29, 2009
• NCRegister on TLS, May 26, 2009
• Davidson’s anomalous monism, May 14, 2009
• Stove Award competition heats up!, May 12, 2009
• Act and potency, May 8, 2009
• Mark Shea, Torturer!, May 5, 2009
• “It’s just so obvious!”: The case of torture, May 2, 2009
• TLS on radio, May 1, 2009
• It’s just so obvious!, April 27, 2009
• TLS on radio, April 21, 2009
• Spinoza on final causes, April 20, 2009
• TLS radio podcast, April 16, 2009
• Descartes’ “clear and distinct perception” argument, April 14, 2009
• TLS on radio, April 8, 2009
• Give me that old time atheism, April 4, 2009
• Kalb on TLS, April 3, 2009
• Stove Award winner announced!, April 1, 2009
• Fodor and Aquinas on the Extended Mind Thesis, March 30, 2009
• Pants on fire, March 27, 2009
• The less Rey knows, the less he knows it, March 25, 2009
• Straw men and terracotta armies, March 23, 2009
• ForeWord on TLS, March 12, 2009
• Oderberg on bioethics, March 10, 2009
• “Yawn” indeed, March 8, 2009
• So am I a crank and a liar, or not?, March 6, 2009
• And on the Leiter side…, March 3, 2009
• Kimball on the ECC controversy, March 1, 2009
• The Last Superstition radio podcast, February 26, 2009
• Ashes to Ashes, February 25, 2009
• Wiley-Blackwell responds, February 21, 2009
• Conservatives and tradition, February 20, 2009
• TLS on radio, February 18, 2009
• More on the Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization controversy, February 17, 2009
• Brin on conspiracy theories, February 13, 2009
• ‘Too Christian’ for academia?, February 11, 2009
• The Newspeak of the moderns, February 10, 2009
• The "FOCA Trap"?, January 29, 2009
• Another conspiracy?, January 29, 2009
• The trouble with conspiracy theories, January 26, 2009
• Behe blackballed at Borders?, January 25, 2009
• Purely academic, January 23, 2009
• Christian polemics, the God of the philosophers, natural law, etc., January 15, 2009
• Computers, minds, and Aristotle, January 12, 2009
• The critics’ choice, January 8, 2009
• America, empire, and conservatism, January 7, 2009
• Mindreading?, December 18, 2008
• An open letter to Heather MacDonald, December 7, 2008
• The burden of bad ideas, December 4, 2008
• Secular conservatism, December 3, 2008
• A Neo-Scholastic revival?, December 1, 2008
• Some brief arguments for dualism, Part V, November 22, 2008
• Why allow abortion but not “same-sex marriage”?, November 7, 2008
• Antichrist Superstar, November 4, 2008
• Dewey defeats Truman?, November 3, 2008
• Almost as stupid as “same-sex marriage”, November 3, 2008
• Some brief arguments for dualism, Part IV, October 30, 2008
• The unbearable lightness of being Christopher Buckley, October 17, 2008