Edward Feser

Feser holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of California at Santa Barbara, an M.A. in religion from the Claremont Graduate School, and a B.A. in philosophy and religious studies from the California State University at Fullerton. His thesis is titled "Russell, Hayek, and the Mind-Body Problem".[3] He also went to Crespi High School in California.

Feser is an associate 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.[4]

Feser's book The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism makes a philosophical argument for the classical Aristotelian-Thomistic worldview over and against the materialist assumptions and was he sees as scientistic prejudices of contemporary atheists such as Richard Dawkins, of whom he is particularly critical.[5]

Feser has written articles for publications such as: The American, The American Conservative, Catholic World Report, City Journal, The Claremont Review of Books, Crisis, First Things, Liberty, National Review, New Oxford Review, Public Discourse, Witherspoon Institute, Reason, and TCS Daily.

Feser lives with his wife and six children in Los Angeles, California.[4]

• On Nozick (Thomson-Wadsworth, 2003) ISBN 978-0534252335
• The Cambridge Companion to Hayek (Cambridge University Press, 2006) ISBN 978-0521849777
• Philosophy of Mind (A Beginner's Guide) (Oneworld Publications, 2007) ISBN 978-1851684786
• Locke (Oneworld Publications, 2007) ISBN 978-1851684892
• The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism (St. Augustine's Press, 2008) ISBN 978-1587314520
• Aquinas (A Beginner's Guide) (Oneworld Publications, 2009) ISBN 978-1851686902
• Aristotle on Method and Metaphysics (as editor and contributor) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) ISBN 978-0230360914
• Scholastic Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction (Editiones Scholasticae, 2014) ISBN 978-3868385441
• Neo-Scholastic Essays (St. Augustine's Press, 2015) ISBN 978-1587315589
• By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed: A Catholic Defense of the Death Penalty (with Joseph M. Bessette) (Ignatius Press, 2017) ISBN 978-1621641261
• Five Proofs of the Existence of God (Ignatius Press, 2017) ISBN 978-1621641339
• Aristotle's Revenge: The Metaphysical Foundations of Physical and Biological Science (Editiones Scholasticae, 2019) ISBN 978-3868382006

• Official website
• Edward Feser's blog