Dr Thomas Crowther

Email: t.crowther@heythrop.ac.uk
Telephone: 020 7795 4261

Biography

BA (PPP), Wadham College, Oxford, 1992-5; M.Phil (Philosophy), King’s College, London 1995-7; Ph.D., (Philosophy), King’s College, London, 1997-2001. Junior Lecturer in Philosophy, Magdalen College, Oxford, 2002-3; Lecturer in Philosophy, Birkbeck College, London 2003-4. I have taught at Heythrop since 2004.

Current Teaching

Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, History of Modern Philosophy, Knowledge and Reality

Research Interests

My research interests are in Epistemology, Metaphysics and Philosophy of Mind. I am writing a series of papers that explore the nature of perceptual activity, and the relations between perceptual activity, knowledge of the environment, and self-knowledge.  I am also working on some problems in temporal ontology concerning the notion of progress, and the relations between processes, accomplishments and events.

Publications

(2006) 'Two Conceptions of Conceptualism and Nonconceptualism', Erkenntnis, 65: 245-276.

(2009) ‘Watching, Sight and the Temporal Shape of Perceptual Activity’, Philosophical Review, 118, 1: 1-27.

(2009) ‘Perceptual Activity and the Will’. In Lucy O’ Brien and Matthew Soteriou (eds.) Mental Actions, (Oxford, O.U.P.)

(2010) 'The Agential Profile of Perceptual Experience', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Vol. 110, Issue 2, pt. 2, 219- 242.

(2011) ‘The Matter of Events’, Review of Metaphysics, vol. 65, no. 1.

In preparation

Books

Consciousness and the Will (co-editor with M.G.F. Martin, P. F. Snowdon and Hong Yu Wong) A two volume collection of papers on the philosophy of Brian O’Shaughnessy.

Papers

(i) ‘The Epistemic Function of Wakeful Consciousness’

(ii) ‘Experience, Dreaming and the Phenomenology of Wakeful Consciousness’

(iii) ‘Progress and Completion’

(iv) ‘Enduring Process’