[1] According to Zachary Goldberg, professor at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, French's contributions to a wide spectrum of philosophical discussions made him an influential figure in the areas of moral responsibility and the agency of individuals and collectives.

[3] According to Professor Jeffrey Moriarty in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy French is "a seminal thinker on corporate moral agency."

According to French a CID Structure produces decision-making, ratification, and action processes thereby forming a corporation into a functioning intentional morally responsible entity.

Policies and procedures are recognition rules for identifying a decision or an act as having been made or performed for corporate reasons.

"[7] When the United States Supreme Court issued its ruling in Citizens United v. FEC, some philosophers and legal theorists wrote to French claiming his work had laid the groundwork for the treatment of corporations as persons and asked if he was willing to change his position on corporations and write an opinion piece for the New York Times.

French declined and responded in a paper published in the festschrift honoring him that the Court's majority opinion does not represent his position on corporate moral personhood.

According to Jane E. Jadlos writing in The Journal of Religion for French "responsibility is not a truth of some sort about the world, but a set of practices used to describe and understand individual and social behavior.

The citation read at the college’s 171st Commencement by then Gettysburg College President Katherine Will included the following: "Your book exploring the My Lai Massacre attracted national attention for its exploration of the question of whether army units or individual members of those units are responsible for military atrocities and is widely credited as a founding work of the field of applied ethics.

"[17] In 2014, the American Philosophical Association dedicated a Symposium Session on the Work of Peter French at its Central Division Meetings in Chicago.