He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and six children.The central contention of the “New Atheism” of Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens is that there has for several centuries been a war between science and religion, that religion has been steadily losing that war, and that at this point in human history a completely secular scientific account of the world has been worked out in such thorough and convincing detail that there is no longer any reason why a rational and educated person should find the claims of any religion the least bit worthy of attention.īut as Edward Feser argues in The Last Superstition, in fact there is not, and never has been, any war between science and religion at all. In this connection, his work has appeared in such publications as The American, The American Conservative, The American Mind, Catholic Herald, Catholic World Report, City Journal, The Claremont Review of Books, Crisis, First Things, Liberty, National Review, New Oxford Review, Public Discourse, Reason, TCS Daily, and the Times Literary Supplement. His primary academic research interests are in metaphysics, natural theology, the philosophy of mind, and moral and political philosophy.įeser also writes on politics and culture, from a conservative point of view and on religion, from a traditional Roman Catholic perspective. He is also the author of many academic articles. in philosophy and religious studies from the California State University at Fullerton.Ĭalled 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 Essays, Five Proofs of the Existence of God, and Aristotle's Revenge, 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. in religion from the Claremont Graduate School, and a B.A. in philosophy from the University of California at Santa Barbara, an M.A. 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, Ohio.
Edward Feser is Professor of Philosophy at Pasadena City College in Pasadena, California.
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