About Me

Welcome to my website, my name is Craig French. I'm an AHRC funded Ph.D Student in the Philosophy Department at UCL. I am also the Teaching Assistant for Greek Philosophy. From September 2010 I will join UCL's Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience for a year to do cross-disciplinary research.

In my Ph.D thesis I aim to give an account of the nature of Perceptual Knowledge. I work mainly on the metaphysics and epistemology of perception, and practical (e.g., moral) philosophy. I also have a strong interest in various areas of the history of philosophy. The perspective I take is that the epistemology of perception should concentrate on a special class of reasons. Doing the epistemology of perception in this way enables us to formulate questions about what is required at the level of the metaphysics of perception. My supervisor this summer is Professor Christopher Peacocke.

My MPhil.Stud Thesis is `Seeing Objects and Spatial Perception'. My supervisor was Professor Paul Snowdon. You can read the submitted version here - any comments will of course be greatly appreciated!

Below you can download some of my work if you wish, perhaps more interesting are the links to friends' websites on the right. For more information about my academic exploits my CV is here.

Recent and Forthcoming Talks

Current Research

My research interests are in Metaphysics & Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind & Psychology, and the History of Philosophy, but I am interested in all areas of philosophy. I am working on various things at the moment, including the following papers (more drafts soon)

Comments of course are very welcome. You can read some of my book reviews here (the first two are published in the Heythrop Journal (Vol. 50, no. 2, 2009), the third is forthcoming, and the fourth was published in BJUP.)

Teaching

I am the TA for second year undergraduate Greek philosophy at UCL. I am also an undergraduate tutorial assistant for undergraduates at UCL and Heythrop college. In tutorials I teach various things including: Descartes' Meditations, Hume on Causation, Plato's Meno, Plato on Deomcracy in the Republic, Parfit on Personal Identity. At Heythrop I tutor in Epistemology and History of Modern Philosophy. I'm also an online tutor for the Oxford University Dept. of Continuing Education.