Welcome to my website, my name is Craig French. I'm an AHRC funded PhD Student in the Philosophy Department at UCL. I am also the Teaching Assistant for Greek Philosophy. My PhD thesis is on the relation between Perception and Perceptual Knowledge. I'm currently being supervised by Profesor Mark Eli Kalderon. My MPhil.Stud Thesis is `Seeing Objects and Spatial Perception'. It was supervised by Professor Paul Snowdon. You can read the submitted version here - any comments will of course be greatly appreciated!

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 wish, perhaps more interesting are the links to friends' websites on the right. For more information about my academic exploits my CV is here.

• Visual Differentiation and Spatial Perception
  • MindGrad, December 2009, Warwick University
• Visual Differentiation and Spatial Perception
  • Graduate Conference, December 2009, Institute of Philosophy, University of London
• Peacocke on Awareness and Knowledge of Mental Action
  • Mental Actions Research Seminar, November 2009, UCL
• Reddy on Experiencing Attention
  • Philosophy of Psychology Research Seminar, November 2009, Heythrop College
• Is Simplicity of a Theory of Meaning an Alethic Virtue?
  • Graduate Conference on Meaning and Truth, October 2009, University of Amsterdam
• Simplicity and the Metaphysics of Meaning
  • CMM Graduate Conference on Metaphysics, September 2009, University of Leeds
• Incomplete Definite Descriptions and Indeterminacy
  • OpenMinds, July 2009, University of Manchester
• Testimony and Memory as Generative Sources of Knowledge
  • OpenMinds, June 2008, University of Manchester
• Testimony as a Generative Source of Knowledge
  • London-Berkeley Conference, May 2008, Institute of Philosophy, University of London

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)

• Perception and Perceptual Ways of Knowing
• The Varieties of Watching
• Visual Differentiation and Spatial Perception (18/12/09, rough draft)
• Simplicity and the Metaphysics of Meaning (Update 03/09/09)
• A Priori Entitlement and Leaching
• Testimony as a Generative Source of Knowledge (pdf) (Update 22/04/09)
• Gail Fine on Inquiry in the Meno
• 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

• A Philosophical Critique of Rae Langton's Interpretation of Kant

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

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. I teach mainly Theory of Knowledge. The course is based on Professor Duncan Pritchard's introductory book of the same name. 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.