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Harvard talk
This Friday, October 4, I will be giving a talk at Harvard University, sponsored by the Abigail Adams Institute. The topic will be “The Immateriality of the Mind.” The event will be in Sever Hall,...
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Transubstantiation and hylemorphism
One of the key themes of the early modern philosophers’ revolt against Scholasticism was a move away from an Aristotelian hylemorphist conception of the nature of physical substance to some variation...
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Around the web
At The Catholic Thing, Fr. Thomas Weinandy on the studied ambiguity of Pope Francis. In his new book Conciliar Octet, Fr. Aidan Nichols on the hermeneutic of continuity and Vatican II. At Medium,...
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Masculinity and the Marvel movies
Some time back, John Haldane gave a Thomistic Institute talk here in Los Angeles on the theme of evil in the movies and in the movie industry. During the Q and A (at about the 40 minute mark, and...
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John Paul II in defense of the nation and patriotism
In chapters 11-15 of his last book Memory and Identity, Pope St. John Paul II provides a lucid exposition of the idea of the nation as a natural social institution and of the virtue of patriotism, as...
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New from Editiones Scholasticae
Editiones Scholasticae, the publisher of my books Scholastic Metaphysics and Aristotle’s Revenge, informs me that both of them will within a few days be available in eBook versions. Also new from the...
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The strange case of Pope Vigilius
The increasingly strange pontificate of Pope Francis is leading many Catholics into increasingly strange behavior. Some, like the emperor’s sycophants in the Hans Christian Anderson story, insist with...
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Cambridge Companion to Natural Law Ethics
My article “Natural Law Ethics and the Revival of Aristotelian Metaphysics” appears in The Cambridge Companion to Natural Law Ethics, edited by Tom Angier. You can find out more about the volume at...
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Two popes and idolatry
How bad can a bad pope get? Pretty bad. Here are two further examples from history. Marcellinus was pope from c. 296 – 304. During his pontificate, Emperor Diocletian initiated a persecution of the...
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Oppy and Lim on Five Proofs
Graham Oppy’s article “On stage one of Feser’s ‘Aristotelian proof’”, which responds to some of the arguments I give in Five Proofs of the Existence of God, has recently been posted at the website of...
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Join the Ur-Platonist alliance!
What’s in a name? I’m an unreconstructed Thomist, but I would be the last to deny that it is a mistake to think that one man, Thomas Aquinas, somehow got everything right all by himself. Aquinas was,...
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Against candy-ass Christianity
The Mr. Rogers biopic, with Tom Hanks in the starring role, comes out this week and has been getting a lot of positive attention – in some cases, embarrassingly rapturous attention. This might seem...
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The Last Superstition in French
My book The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism is now available in a French translation. The book is also available in Portugueseand German. While we're on the subject of translations,...
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Time-sensitive Turkey Day tweets
Palgrave Macmillan announces a Cyber Week Sale until December 3. Good time to pick up that copy of Aristotle on Method and Metaphysics you’ve been pining for.Readers in the Los Angeles area might be...
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Was Aquinas a property dualist?
One must always be cautious when trying to relate Aquinas’s position on some philosophical issue to the options familiar to contemporary academic philosophers. Sometimes he is not addressing quite the...
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The thread about nothing
It’s open thread time. There is no topic, which means everything is on topic. Now is the time finally to raise that issue that you keep bringing up out of left field in other threads – in comments I...
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Unwise book reviewing
Honestly, what runs through editors’ minds when they assign book reviewers? The Claremont Review of Books has just run a review of Aristotle’s Revenge, by some fellow named J. Eric Wise. And, heaven...
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Word to the Wise
Eric Wise takes to Facebook to express shock that an author would be annoyed with a book reviewer who doesn’t have anything to say about the actual contents of the book under review. He also manages...
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Brungardt on Aristotle’s Revenge
At Thomistica, philosopher John Brungardt reviews Aristotle’s Revenge. He provides a fairly detailed overview of its methods and contents, and judges it “a broad, substantive book” that “has gathered...
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Science et Esprit on Aristotle’s Revenge
In the latest issue of the journal Science et Esprit(Vol. 72, Nos. 1-2), René Ardell Fehr kindly reviews my book Aristotle’s Revenge. Judging it a “fine work,” Fehr writes:Feser’s book attempts to...
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