Edward Feser

My review of Grayson Quay’s The Transhumanist Temptation and Paul Kingsnorth’s Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity appears in the Fall 2026 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.

Let’s continue our critical look at William Lane Craig’s treatment of Thomism and the doctrine of divine simplicity in Volume IIa of his Systematic Philosophical Theology.

In an earlier article, I discussed William Lane Craig’s treatment of the kalām cosmological argument in Volume IIb of his Systematic Philosophical Theology.

The kalām cosmological argument for God’s existence holds that the universe must have had a beginning.

As I have argued since it began, President Trump’s war on Iran fails to meet several of the conditions of traditional just war doctrine.

In my latest article at Postliberal Order, I discuss how the novel metaphysical assumptions that modern philosophy brought to the traditional project of establishing the existence and nature of God often either led to heterodoxy or greased the skids for a…

This week, Massachusetts’ Democratic governor Maura Healey signed a law removing existing restrictions on late-term abortion, thereby legalizing it to the moment of birth.

Sir Anthony Kenny died on August 3.

Several new articles from David Oderberg: “Hylemorphism as a Generalized Research Programme”; “In Defence of Panmoralism”; and “Turning the Tables on the Table Deniers: Metaphysical Mythmaking About Ordinary Objects.”

President Trump has renewed his threats to destroy Iranian civilian infrastructure such as power stations and bridges, which could result in a humanitarian disaster.

My essay “Misunderstanding “Human Dignity,’” which discusses some illuminating things Elizabeth Anscombe had to say about the subject, appears today at Postliberal Order.

My review of James K.

In New Blackfriars, Br.

In his classic book Orthodoxy, G.

The second issue of the new Journal of Natural Law is out soon.

Early modern philosophy and science are often said to have put a “mechanical” or “mechanistic” conception of nature at the center of Western thought.

Last week, Pope Leo XIV issued Magnifica Humanitas, the first encyclical of his pontificate.

Much of modern philosophy has been hypnotized by the idea that causality, necessity, and value are not features of objective reality but merely features the human mind projects onto reality.

After the United States and Israel attacked Iran at the end of February of this year, the war’s defenders suddenly began to claim (and incessantly to repeat) that the U.S. has already been at war with Iran for 47 years.

Scholastic thinkers like Cardinal Cajetan, St.

In a recent article at First Things, I argued that the just war tradition holds that for a war to be justifiable, it must be morally certain that it meets just war conditions (not merely arguable or even probable that it meets them).

In an article at First Things, I show that the standard view in the Catholic just war tradition is that for a war to be just, it is not enough that it be merely arguable or even probable that it meets all just war criteria.

The first issue of The Journal of Natural Law has now been published.

At The Telegraph, John Haldane remembers the late Dominican theologian Fr.

My article “The New Neo-Scholasticism” appears in the Winter 2026 issue of the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly.

Roger Scruton’s book Beauty contains an interesting brief treatment of addiction.

From Twitter/X, on the president’s deranged post of this morning (which managed to top even his deranged Easter post):