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New from Oderberg
Fans of David S. Oderberg have long been looking forward to a new book from him, and now it is here – just in time to fill Christmas stockings. The Metaphysics of Good and Evil is out this month from...
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Cundy on relativity and the A-theory of time
One of the many topics treated in Aristotle’s Revenge is the relationship between Aristotelian philosophy of nature and contemporary debates in the philosophy of time. For example, I argue that, while...
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Overestimating human responsibility
One of the many pernicious aspects of modern political life is the tendency, every time something bad happens, to look for someone to blame – or, where someone is to blame, to try to extend the blame...
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Links for a new year
Joseph Bessette on criminal sentencing laws and retributive justice, at Public Discourse.The Catholic Thing on the late, great Michael Uhlmann. Requiescat in pace, Mike.At The New Atlantis, Benjamin...
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The rationalist/empiricist false choice
I’ve often argued that contemporary philosophers too often think only within the box of alternative positions inherited from their early modern forebears, neglecting or even being ignorant of the very...
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Review of Swinburne
My review of Richard Swinburne’s recent book Are We Bodies or Souls? appears in the February 2020 issue of First Things. You can read it online.
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Scruton’s virtues
The Guardian reports that conservative philosopher Sir Roger Scruton has died. I vividly recall the first time I became aware of Scruton. I was an undergraduate philosophy major in the late 1980s,...
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Johnson on Aristotle’s Revenge
At Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Monte Ransome Johnson reviewsmy book Aristotle’s Revenge. Prof. Johnson is an Aristotle scholar and historian of philosophy, which is relevant to understanding his...
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Upcoming talks, etc.
On February 6 on Cameron Bertuzzi’s Capturing Christianity, Graham Oppy and I will resume the debate on the existence of God that we began last July.On February 11, I will be giving a talk at Cornell...
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Aquinas 101
The Thomistic Institute has added to the great work it is already doing by introducing Aquinas 101, “a series of free video courses… that help you to engage life’s most urgent philosophical and...
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Adventures in the Old Atheism, Part IV: Marx
I have never been remotely attracted to Marxism. Its economic reductionism, vision of human life as a struggle of antagonistic classes, hostility to the family, and the hermeneutics of suspicion...
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Preternatural theology
Natural theology is traditionally distinguished from revealed theology. Natural theology is concerned with knowledge about God’s existence and nature that is available to us via the use of our natural...
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Review of Kerr
My review of Gaven Kerr’s excellent book Aquinas's Way to God: The Proof in De Ente et Essentia appears in the current issue of The Thomist (Vol. 83, No. 2).
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Discussion with Graham Oppy
Earlier today on Cameron Bertuzzi’s Capturing Christianity program, I had a very pleasant and fruitful live exchange with Graham Oppy. You can watch it on YouTube. This is the second exchange Oppy...
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Sandstad and Jansen on Aristotle’s Revenge
At the Bryn Mawr Classical Review, philosophers Petter Sandstad and Ludger Jansen review my book Aristotle’s Revenge. From the review:Feser’s book adds to a growing body of literature on...
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The socialist state as an occasionalist god
Hobbes famously characterized his Leviathan state as a mortal god. Here’s another theological analogy, or set of analogies, which might illuminate the differences between kinds of political and...
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Morgan on Aristotle’s Revenge
At The Imaginative Conservative, Prof. Jason Morgan kindly reviews my book Aristotle’s Revenge. From the review:In 456 very well-written pages… (followed by a treasure trove of a bibliography), Dr....
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Agere sequitur esse and the First Way
Aquinas’s First Way is also known as the argument from motion to an Unmoved Mover. The most natural way to read it is as an argument to the effect that things could not change at any given moment if...
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The other way to lose a war
Rod Dreher commentson the U.S. deal with the Taliban to withdraw, at long last, from Afghanistan. He writes: “The Taliban whipped… the United States… We simply could not prevail. The richest and most...
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On-topic open thread (and a word on trolls)
Folks, please don’t post off-topic comments in the comboxes. I will delete them, and any responses to them, as soon as I see them, and (since I don’t always see them immediately) sometimes that means...
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