One of the goals of my Substack is to introduce as many people as possible to Catholic philosophy, especially professional, academic philosophy. Fortunately, I am not the only person who is interested in doing so: there are a lot of Catholic philosophers on the internet! Today, I decided to start a running list of all professional Catholic philosophers with a blog. I highly recommend you go read all of them (after you finish reading mine, of course).
There are lots of smart, well-read Catholics on the internet, so I had to limit myself to some degree to people who, from what I could tell, were primarily academics who also wrote on Substack. This is not necessarily a value claim; lots of great writers on Substack are not academics, including myself, who is really more a failed academic than a philosopher, properly speaking.1 Several of those writers are in my recommendations, so go check them out!
But today, I wanted to focus on professional philosophers because, frequently, their writing is on the cutting edge of actual scholarly work. If you are looking to have a more academic understanding of Catholic philosophy, these blogs are good places to start because they are where academics are trying to teach non-academics. Many of these philosophers also have books you should read! And of course, there are many other non-Catholic philosophers with good blogs who I would love to include, but this blog’s focus is on Catholic philosophy, so I will stick with that. Maybe I will make a sequel of my favorite non-Catholic philosophers another time. Next week, though, I will be back with a more traditional article on a topic of Catholic philosophy, probably Dietrich von Hildebrand’s objection to consequentialist ethics.
I will update this list as I find new blogs, so comment any I am missing!
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Substack:
(who actually hosted one of my own pieces on his blog)
(His much-more-frequently updated blogspot belongs in the non-Substack category)
ADDED IN LATER EDITS:
(Brandon Dahm)
Non-Substack:
Fr. Cajetan Cuddy, O.P. and Matthew K. Minerd
ADDED IN LATER EDITS:
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