Career
French A focus of his present research is the application of insights from autism and social cognition to "second-person" accounts of moral perception and character formation. His previous scientific research contributed to the DELPHI experiment at European Organization of Nuclear Research and he is a co-author of thirty-one publications of the collaboration. French Pinsent has a first class degree in physics and a Doctorate.Phil in high energy physics from Merton College, Oxford, three degrees in philosophy and theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and a further Doctor of Philosophy in philosophy from Saint Louis University.
He has been interviewed for various media, including the British Broadcasting Corporation and EWTN, on issues of science and faith.
He has also written for the Catholic Herald, who identified him as a prominent young Catholic. His most recent book is The Second-Person Perspective in Aquinas’s Ethics: Virtues and Gifts, Routledge 2012.
Besides academic publications, he is a co-author of the Evangelium catechetical course and the Credo, Apologia, and Lumen pocket books