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Pagden on the Enlightenment
Prof. Anthony Pagden’s recent book The Enlightenment: And Why It Still Matters has much to say not only about the Enlightenment itself but also about the Scholasticism against which it reacted. My...
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SCOTUS and Oderberg
Today, with Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, the Supreme Court of the United States has partially redeemed itself after its disgraceful 2012 Obamacare ruling. Readers of this blog will be particularly...
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Carroll on laws and causation
People have been asking me to comment on the remarks about causation made by atheist physicist Sean Carroll during his recent debate with William Lane Craig on the topic of “God and Cosmology.”...
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Clarke on the stock caricature of First Cause arguments
W. Norris Clarke’s article “A Curious Blind Spot in the Anglo-American Tradition of Antitheistic Argument” first appeared in The Monist in 1970. It was reprinted in his anthology The Creative...
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I link, therefore I am
This week: DSPT conference on philosophy and theology in Berkeley. See you there.John Searle, who will be speaking at the conference, is interviewed by Tim Crane.Does Darwinism eliminate teleology and...
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Back from Berkeley
Got back last night from the very fine DSPT conference on the relationship between philosophy and theology in Berkeley. The main presenters were Msgr. Robert Sokolowski, Linda Zagzebski, Fr. Michael...
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Where’s God?
Here’s an analogy that occurs to me as a way of thinking about some of the main issues debated here on the blog over the years. Suppose you’re looking at a painting of a crowd of people, and you...
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Signature in the cell?
In the combox of my recent post comparing the New Atheism and ID theory to different players in a game of Where’s Waldo?, a reader wrote:One can run a reductio against the claim that we cannot detect...
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Marvel Team-Up: Spider-Man and The Patriarchy
It isn’t newsthat fathers are often portrayed as doofuses in pop culture. An interesting aspect of the Spider-Man movies is how aggressively they buck this trend. The theme of fatherhood and its...
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Logorrhea in the cell
In a recent post I commented on a remark made in one of the comboxes by a reader sympathetic to “Intelligent Design” (ID) theory. At the ID website Uncommon Descent, Vincent Torley has responded, in a...
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Haldane on Nagel and the Fifth Way
Next week I’ll be at the Thomistic Seminar organized by John Haldane. Haldane’s article “Realism, Mind, and Evolution” appeared last year in the journal Philosophical Investigations. Thomas Nagel’s...
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Around the web
Back from a very pleasant (but exhausting!) week in Princeton. While I regroup, some reading to wind down the summer:Andrew Fulford at The Calvinist International kindly reviews my book Scholastic...
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You’re not who you think you are
If I’m not me, who the hell am I?Douglas Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger) in Total RecallIf you know the work of Philip K. Dick, then you know that one of its major themes is the relationship between...
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Carroll on Scholastic Metaphysics
At Public Discourse, William Carroll kindly reviewsmy book Scholastic Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction. From the review:Edward Feser’s latest book gives readers who are familiar with analytic...
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Science dorks
Suppose you’re trying to teach basic arithmetic to someone who has gotten it into his head that the whole subject is “unscientific,” on the grounds that it is non-empirical. With apologies to the...
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Morrissey on Scholastic Metaphysics
At Catholic World Report, Prof. Christopher Morrissey kindly reviews my book Scholastic Metaphysics. From the review:The great strength of Feser’s book is how well it exposes the shortcomings of the...
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Olson contra classical theism
A reader asks me to comment on this blog post by Baptist theologian Prof. Roger Olson, which pits what Olson calls “intuitive” theology against “Scholastic” theology in general and classical theism in...
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Where’s God?
Here’s an analogy that occurs to me as a way of thinking about some of the main issues debated here on the blog over the years. Suppose you’re looking at a painting of a crowd of people, and you...
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Marmodoro on PSR and PC
Philosopher Anna Marmodoro is an important contributor to the current debate within metaphysics over powers and dispositions, and editor of the recommended The Metaphysics of Powers. Recently, at...
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Symington on Scholastic Metaphysics
At Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, philosopher Paul Symington kindly reviews my book Scholastic Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction. From the review:Edward Feser demonstrates a facility with...
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