Louis Rouillé's

Academic website


PhD

2019 Disagreeing about fiction Link to the dissertation

Published papers

2024c Ludic resistance: a new solution to the gamer’s paradox Ethics and Information Technology 26, 32 (doi)
2024b How much of your self do you need to imagine being someone else? Topoï 43, pp.1161-1171 (doi)
2024a On the existence of nonexistence commitments Grazer Philosophische Studien 100(4), pp.523-548 (doi)
2023 The paradox of fictional creatures Philosophies 8(5), 92 (doi)
2021b The logic of fictional existence Synthesis 1, pp.111-132 (pdf)
2021a Anti-realism about fictional names at work: a new theory for metafictional sentences Organon F 28(1), pp.223-252 (doi)
2020 From fictional disagreements to thought experiments Argumenta 6(1), pp.99-116 (doi)

Editing job

I have edited a special issue for the French journal Klesis. It contains 12 original contributions written in French and English, around the work of François Recanati.

2025 Autour des travaux de François Recanati Klesis 58 (link to the issue)

Selected talks

2024 A new “quasi” solution to the paradox of fiction (slides, recording) The limits of fiction (Paris)
2024 Silly questions and their interpretative consequences (slides) Silly Questions about Fiction Workshop (Tilburg)
2024 Names: full, empty, real, and fictional (slides) Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science Seminar (Leuven)
2024 Writing about Harry Potter: toward a corpus study of in-universe and real-world perspectives in online (fan) encyclopedias (slides) LingTalks (Liège)
2024 Quand la fiction déraille: le cas des métafictions littéraires (slides, recording) Collège de France (Paris)
2023 Unrestricted quantification bottom-up (slides) The Existential Import of Singular and General Propositions (Göttingen)
2023 Names: fictional, real, full, and empty (slides) Between Fiction and Non-Fiction (Uppsala)
2023 Linguistic metafictions: toward formal narratology (slides) 1st PEA Workshop (Genoa)
2023 When fictive objects are visualised: a challenge for descriptive theories (slides, recording) Fiction, Literature and Beyond (Barcelona)
2023 The varieties of metafictional reference (slides) Bochum Language Colloquium (Bochum)
2022 A new path toward mathematical fictionalism (slides) Philosophy of mathematics (Liège)
2022 Deconstructing Gregor (slides) Fiction and Narrative across Media (Groningen)
2022 The paradox of fictional creatures (slides) BSA annual conference (Oxford)
2022 How much of your self do you need to imagine being someone else? (slides) The semantics of imagination (Galway)
2021 “Truth in fiction” as an unsupervised learning task (paper) IA Fictions (Paris)
2020 Le paradoxe de la fiction: arpenter l’espace logique ou expérimenter? (handout, recording) Université de Rouen
2019 Doing the impossible with possible worlds (handout) On what there isn’t (Düsseldorf)
2019 Fictional and metafictional uses of names: an analogy with games (handout) PHILANG2019 (Łodź)
2019 “Truth in fiction”: a problem for truth or for fiction? (handout) Workshop on Post-truth (Bremen)
2018 What can fictional disagreements tell us about fictional truth? (handout) Once upon a time... (Groningen)

Organisation of workshops

2024 Semantic foundations for narratology ESSLLI workshop (Leuven)
2021 Themes From the Philosophy of Stephen Yablo Collège de France (Paris)
2019 Fiction, Lies, Pretence (Paris) Institut Jean Nicod (Paris)

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