Edward Feser
American professor of philosophy
Edward Charles Feser () is an American Catholic philosopher. He is a professor of Philosophy at Pasadena City College in Pasadena, California.
Early life and education
Edward Charles Feser holds a B.A. in philosophy and religious studies from the California State University at Fullerton, an M.A. in religion from the Claremont Graduate School, and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of California at Santa Barbara. His 1999 thesis is titled Russell, Hayek, and the Mind-Body Problem.
Career
Feser is a professor of philosophy at Pasadena City College and has been a visiting assistant professor of philosophy at Loyola Marymount University and a visiting scholar at Bowling Green State University's Social Philosophy and Policy Center.
Called by National Review "one of the best contemporary writers on philosophy", Feser is the author of On Nozick; Philosophy of Mind; Locke; The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism; Aquinas; Scholastic Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction; Neo-Scholastic Essay; and Five Proofs of the Existence of God; the co-author of By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed: A Catholic Defense of Capital Punishment; and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Hayek and Aristotle on Method and Metaphysics. His primary academic research interests are in metaphysics, natural theology, the philosophy of mind, and moral and political philosophy.
Feser writes on politics and culture from a conservative point of view and on religion from a traditionalist Catholic perspective. His work has appeared in The American, The American Conservative, Catholic World Report, City Journal, The Claremont Review of Books, Crisis, First Things, Liberty, National Review, New Oxford Review, Nova et Vetera, Public Discourse, Reason, and TCS Daily.
Feser has defended Thomistic dualism.
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