About Me
Welcome to my website, my name is Craig French. I'm an AHRC funded MPhil.Stud Research Student in the Philosophy Department at UCL. My thesis is entitled 'Entitlement and the Knowledgeable Mind' and my supervisor is Professor Paul Snowdon. I did my BA in Philosophy at Heythrop College, University of London.
London is a great place to study philosophy, especially with the Institute of Philosophy run by Professor Barry Smith (it was formerly run by Professor Tim Crane).
Below you can download some of my work if you so wish, perhaps more interesting are the links to friends' websites on the right. For more information about my academic exploits my CV is here.
Current Research
My primary research interests are in Metaphysics & Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind & Language, and the History of Philosophy, but I am interested in all areas of philosophy. I'm currently working on my MPhil.Stud thesis with the working title of `Entitlement and the Knowledgeable Mind'.
I am working on various things at the moment, including the following papers (more drafts soon)
- A Priori Entitlement and Leaching
- Testimony as a Generative Source of Knowledge (pdf) (Update 22/04/09)
- Gail Fine on Inquiry in the Meno (pdf) (html)
- Philosophical Problems for the New Metaphysical Kant
- Incomplete Descriptions and The Problem of Indeterminacy
- On Wittgenstein's "Refutation of Idealism"
Comments of course are very welcome. You can download my BA Thesis, supervised by Dr. Fiona Ellis at Heythrop
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.)
- Review of Kant's Aesthetic Epistemology, by Fiona Hughes
- Review of Kant and Skepticism, by Michael N. Forster
- Review of the Cambridge Companion to Quine, edited by Roger F. Gibson Jnr.
- Review of Creation, Evolution and Meaning, by Robin Attfield
Teaching
I'm an online tutor for the Oxford University Dept. of Continuing Education. I'll be teaching Theory of Knowledge in the Michaelmas and Trinity terms of the 2008-09 academic year. The course is based on Professor Duncan Pritchard's introductory book of the same name. The course is authored by Professor Pritchard. For more information on the course (and to enroll) click here, for information on Professor Pritchard, click here.
The Dept. of Continuing Education Philosophy wing is lead by Marianne Talbot, who pioneered the Online Courses.
I am also an undergraduate tutorial assistant for undergraduates at UCL and Heythrop college. At UCL 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.
