{"id":6875,"date":"2015-11-05T11:45:57","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T11:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/11\/05\/book-notice-edward-feser-neo-scholastic-essays\/"},"modified":"2015-11-05T11:45:57","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T11:45:57","slug":"book-notice-edward-feser-neo-scholastic-essays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/11\/05\/book-notice-edward-feser-neo-scholastic-essays\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Notice: Edward Feser, Neo-Scholastic Essays<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Neo-scholastic\"<\/a>The phenomenal Edward Feser.  How does he do it?  He teaches an outrageous number of courses at a community college, five per semester; he has written numerous books; he gives talks and speeches, and last time I checked he has six children.  Not to mention his weblog<\/a> which is bare of fluff and filler and of consistently high quality.<\/span><\/p>\n

He writes with clarity, style, and wit, and you don't want to end up on the wrong end of his polemics, as Lawrence Krauss did recently who got himself deservedly tagged by Ed as a "professional amateur philosopher."
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Ed is an embodiment of one of the truths of Quine's essay Paradoxes of Plenty<\/a>, namely, that a paucity of free time is not inimical to productivity.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ed's latest collects 16 recent essays in the areas of philosophy of nature, natural theology, philosophy of mind, and ethics. Start with "The Road from Atheism," his intellectual autobiography.<\/span><\/p>\n

You can get the book from Amazon<\/a> for a paltry $19.02.  Amazon blurb:<\/span><\/p>\n

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In a series of publications over the course of a decade, Edward Feser has argued for the defensibility and abiding relevance to issues in contemporary philosophy of Scholastic ideas and arguments, and especially of Aristotelian-Thomistic ideas and arguments. This work has been in the vein of what has come to be known as \u201canalytical Thomism,\u201d though the spirit of the project goes back at least to the Neo-Scholasticism of the period from the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. Neo-Scholastic Essays collects some of Feser\u2019s academic papers from the last ten years on themes in metaphysics and philosophy of nature, natural theology, philosophy of mind, and ethics. Among the diverse topics covered are: the relationship between Aristotelian and Newtonian conceptions of motion; the varieties of teleological description and explanation; the proper interpretation of Aquinas\u2019s Five Ways; the impossibility of a materialist account of the human intellect; the philosophies of mind of Kripke, Searle, Popper, and Hayek; the metaphysics of value; the natural law understanding of the ethics of private property and taxation; a critique of political libertarianism; and the defensibility and indispensability to a proper understanding of sexual morality of the traditional \u201cperverted faculty argument.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The phenomenal Edward Feser.  How does he do it?  He teaches an outrageous number of courses at a community college, five per semester; he has written numerous books; he gives talks and speeches, and last time I checked he has six children.  Not to mention his weblog which is bare of fluff and filler and … Continue reading “Book Notice: Edward Feser, Neo-Scholastic Essays<\/i>“<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[289,362],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-scholasticism-new-and-old"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}