Edward Feser teaches philosophy at Pasadena City College in Pasadena, CA. He has been a visiting assistant professor at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and a visiting scholar at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, OH. He received his BA from the California State University at Fullerton, where he double majored in philosophy and religious studies, and an MA in religion from the Claremont Graduate School. He received his PhD in philosophy from the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Feser is the author of On Nozick, Philosophy of Mind: A Short Introduction (now available in a revised second edition as Philosophy of Mind: A Beginner’s Guide), and the forthcoming Locke. He is also the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Hayek. His academic articles have appeared in such journals as the Journal of Consciousness Studies, Critical Review, The Independent Review, The Journal of Libertarian Studies, Social Philosophy and Policy, Faith and Philosophy, and the International Journal for Philosophy of Religion. He has also written for such publications as The American Conservative, City Journal, Crisis, Liberty, National Review, New Oxford Review, Reason, and TCS Daily. His primary interests lie in the philosophy of mind, moral and political philosophy, and the philosophy of religion.

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Edward Feser's Posts

The Andrews Sisters Meet Morrissey
Time magazine on the new theism
Not so Bright
They Deserve Each Other
Locke
The evolution of liberalism (and “conservatism”)
Hayek and Fusionism
Oderberg contra Singer
What every good philosopher is drinking...
Reply to Sullivan on natural law
Philosophy of Mind Redux
Hayek Companion update
French philosopher faces death threats
Explaining conspiracy theorists
The Metaphysics of the Martini
Ahmadinejad's apologists
Pakaluk contra MacDonald
Secularism and human rights
Contra the Rothbardians yet again: A Reply to Walter Block
Smith on Leo Strauss
Appiah on cosmopolitanism
Sanity in the UK
Rothbard as a philosopher
American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia
Oderberg on metaphysics and natural law
The Cambridge Companion to Hayek
Libertarianism, Natural Rights, and War: A Further Reply to Gordon
Rothbardians and Iraq: A Reply to David Gordon
Paleoconservatism and the war in Iraq, Part III
Paleoconservatism and the war in Iraq, Part II
Paleoconservatism and the war in Iraq, Part I
Natural rights theory versus contractarianism
Oderberg on scientific fraud
The Metaphysics of Conservatism
Private property and justice
Catholicism, conservatism, and capital punishment
Conservatism, populism, and snobbery
Blackburn, Anscombe, and natural law
Is a Picture Worth a Thousand Words?
Ferguson on conservative books
Liberal neutrality so-called
Philosophy of Mind
Gutmann on Identity Politics
The Anti-Conservative Fallacy
Natural ends and natural law, Part II
Natural ends and natural law, Part I
Libertarianism and moral neutrality, Part II
Libertarianism and moral neutrality
How to Mix Religion and Politics
National Socialism and the welfare state
Conservatism and analytic philosophy