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Craig French
Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts
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Biography
Before joining Nottingham in September 2016 I obtained a PhD in philosophy from UCL in 2012, was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Antwerp from 2012-2013, and a JRF at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge from 2013-2016.
Expertise Summary
My areas of research expertise are the philosophy of mind & psychology (especially the philosophy of perception), and epistemology.
Teaching Summary
My main teaching responsibilities at the moment are Advanced Topics in the Philosophy of Mind (3rd year course) and Mind and Consciousness (2nd year course)
Research Summary
My research is in the philosophy of mind and epistemology. I focus a lot on questions to do with perception: what is its nature, that is, what is it to perceive the world, and to have conscious… read more
Selected Publications
CRAIG FRENCH, 2018. Naive Realism and Diaphaneity Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society. (In Press.)
CRAIG FRENCH, 2019. Epistemological Disjunctivism and its Representational Commitments. In: DUNCAN PRITHCARD, JOE MILBURN and CASEY DOYLE, eds., New Issues in Epistemological Disjunctivism Routledge. (In Press.)
CRAIG FRENCH and LEE WALTERS, 2017. The Invalidity of the Argument from Illusion. American Philosophical Quarterly. (In Press.)
Current Research
My research is in the philosophy of mind and epistemology. I focus a lot on questions to do with perception: what is its nature, that is, what is it to perceive the world, and to have conscious perceptual experience? How are we to account for how perception gives us knowledge.
I'd be happy to supervise graduate students working in the philosophy perception, and the philosophy of mind and epistemology more broadly.
CRAIG FRENCH, 2019. Epistemological Disjunctivism and its Representational Commitments. In: DUNCAN PRITHCARD, JOE MILBURN and CASEY DOYLE, eds., New Issues in Epistemological Disjunctivism Routledge. (In Press.)
CRAIG FRENCH, 2018. Naive Realism and Diaphaneity Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society. (In Press.)
CRAIG FRENCH and LEE WALTERS, 2017. The Invalidity of the Argument from Illusion. American Philosophical Quarterly. (In Press.)
CRAIG FRENCH, 2017. Object Seeing and Spatial Perception. In: FIONA MACPHERSON, FABIAN DORSCH and MARTINE NIDA-RÜMELIN, eds., Phenomenal Presence Oxford University Press. (In Press.)
CRAIG FRENCH, 2017. Bálint’s syndrome, Object Seeing, and Spatial Perception Mind & Language. (In Press.)
CRAIG FRENCH, 2016. Idiosyncratic Perception Philosophical Quarterly. 66(3), 391-399 2016. The Formulation of Epistemological Disjunctivism Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. XCII(1), 86-104 CRAIG FRENCH and ANIL GOMES, 2016. On the Particularity of Experience Philosophical Studies. 173, 451-460 CRAIG FRENCH and ANIL GOMES, 2016. Still Particular Available at: <http://philpapers.org/go.pl?id=GOMSPA&u=http%3A%2F%2Fphilpapers.org%2Farchive%2FGOMSPA.pdf> CRAIG FRENCH, 2016. The Problem of Illusion for Naive Realism The Brains Blog. Available at: <http://philosophyofbrains.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Craig-French-The-Problem-of-Illusion-for-Naive-Realism.pdf> TIM CRANE and CRAIG FRENCH, 2015. The Problem of Perception The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Available at: <http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/perception-problem/> CRAIG FRENCH, 2014. Knowledge and Ways of Knowing Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society. cxiv(3), 353-364 CRAIG FRENCH, 2013. Perceptual Experience and Seeing that P Synthese. 190, 1735–1751