And he does deliver a lucid and passionate presentation of their metaphysical arguments. Feser is clearly a well-read student of philosophy, particularly with regards to the works of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas. Feser's book fails to accomplish any of the above. 'established, (a) when rightly understood, the traditional arguments for an Aristotelian metaphysical picture of the world are powerful, (b) the modern philosophers' criticisms of that picture are no good and their own attempted replacements of it are fraught with various paradoxes and incoherencies, and (c) modern science is not only inconsistent with that metaphysical picture but at least to some extent tends to point in its direction.' In the closing pages of this book, Edward Feser sums up his thesis, arguing that he has He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and six children. In this connection, his work has appeared in such publications as The American, The American Conservative, City Journal, The Claremont Review of Books, Crisis, First Things, Liberty, National Review, New Oxford Review, Public Discourse, Reason, and TCS Daily. His primary academic research interests are in the philosophy of mind, moral and political philosophy, and the philosophy of religion.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, and Aquinas, and 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 Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pasadena City College in Pasadena, California.

The last superstition