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Harvard talk
This Friday, October 2, I will be giving a talk at Harvard University, sponsored by the Harvard Catholic Student Association and the John Adams Society. The topic will be “The Immortality of the...
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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 recall that it focused very specifically on Krauss’s argument to the...
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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 be more like Keith Parsons and Jeff Lowder?” (Many readers will...
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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 the evidence, to turn his head the other way, in order to deny the...
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Koukl responds
Christian apologist Greg Kouklkindly sent me a response to my recent post about the discussion generated by his recent comments about atheism, natural theology, and Romans 1:18-20. With his...
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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 suppression of this inclination. Greg Koukl takes the inclination...
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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 never learns. Show him that he’s shot himself in one foot, and in...
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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:Edward Feser writes as an historically informed Thomist who is also...
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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 links. Chris Kaczor is interviewed at National Review and America...
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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 twentieth-century philosophers call semantic indeterminacy -- the way...
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Papal fallibility
Catholic doctrine on the teaching authority of the pope is pretty clear, but lots of people badly misunderstand it. A non-Catholic friend of mine recently asked me whether the pope could in theory...
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The Telegraph on Scholastic Metaphysics
At The Daily Telegraph, Christopher Howse kindly calls attention to my book Scholastic Metaphysics, which he describes as follows:A brilliant new defence of metaphysics… [I]t is a lively read. The...
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In Defence of Scholasticism
My article “In Defence of Scholasticism” appears in the 2015 issue of The Venerabile(the cover of which is at left), which is published by the Venerable English College in Rome. Visit the magazine’s...
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Should a Catholic vote for Ben Carson?
During the second Republican presidential candidates debate in September, Ben Carson said that instead of invading Afghanistan after 9/11, President Bush should have used the “bully pulpit”...
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Yuletide links
End-of-semester grading, Christmas shopping, and the like leave little time for substantive blogging. So for the moment I’ll leave the writing to others:Times Higher Education on the lunatic asylum...
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Goodill on Scholastic Metaphysics and Wittgenstein
In the January 2016 issue of New Blackfriars, David Goodill reviews my book Scholastic Metaphysics. From the review:Feser[‘s]... purpose... is in bringing Scholastic metaphysics into conversation with...
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Christians, Muslims, and the reference of “God”
The question of whether Christians and Muslims worship the same God has become the topic du jour in certain parts of the blogosphere. Our friends Frank Beckwith, Bill Vallicella, Lydia McGrew, Fr. Al...
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Canine theology
In Western culture, the dog is often described as “man’s best friend,” and in Western art, the dog is often used as a symbol for faithfulness. Suppose, then, that we compare the Catholic faith to a...
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Liberalism and Islam
Note: What follows is pretty long, especially if you think of it as a blog post. So think of it instead as an article. The topic does not, in any event, lend itself to brevity. Nor do I think it...
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Islam, Christianity, and liberalism again
Hope you won’t mind submitting to one more post on Islam (the last for a while, I hope). What follows are some comments on some of the discussion of Islam and its relationship to Christianity and to...
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