Comments on: Feser Can’t Read (and Other Astonishing Facts)

By: Richard Carrier

Richard Carrier — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 02:37:41 +0000

Update: Apparently, horrendously sucking at reading what people write is a pastime of Feser. See this scathingly witty expose of his colleague David Bentley Hart. Hart was victimized by the same egregious behavior of Feser failing, indeed even refusing, to read what someone wrote before unabashedly criticizing it.

By: Richard Carrier

Richard Carrier — Sun, 11 Mar 2018 20:30:10 +0000

In reply to CallingVain. In which he demonstrates he still can't read and still isn't responding to anything I actually argued.

By: Richard Carrier

Richard Carrier — Sun, 11 Mar 2018 20:23:46 +0000

Update: Feser has responded yet again, and still doesn't get it.

By: proudfootzproudfootz

proudfootzproudfootz — Sat, 10 Mar 2018 01:00:11 +0000

Glad you have taken up a discussion about this author. I had a run in with Feser and Feserites some years ago when I criticized his book ‘The Last Superstition’ when it came out. He was using his Thomistic arguments to ‘prove’ atheism was a nonsensical self-refuting position. While some conservatives want to turn the clock back to the 1950s, or the 19th century, he seems to want to turn the clock back all the way back to the Dark Ages.

By: CallingVain

CallingVain — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 15:05:29 +0000

Feser responds here:

http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2018/03/carrier-carries-on.html

By: Richard Carrier

Richard Carrier — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 16:32:17 +0000

Update: To make sure a point mentioned in my original critique wasn’t lost here, I added here the sentences “Spacetime also isn’t located “in” time. It is time. All as one static, unchanging, multi-dimensional object. It therefore has no location and doesn’t actually ever “change” in any sense relevant to his argument. It is simply the simultaneous realization of all things necessary and contingent.” With a hyperlink to my past article on the scientific evidence for the B-theory of time.