Louis Rouillé

Research Group: LanCog

 

I am a philosopher of language, working as an FCT junior researcher in Lisbon at LanCog, on a project entitled “The dynamics of fictional names”. Though mainly contributing to debates in the semantics of names and the metaphysics of fictional characters, I am interested in all kinds of philosophical problems relating to fictions outside and also contribute to aesthetics, philosophy of mind, linguistics and epistemology. Feel free to reach out for any fiction-related worries!

I was trained in philosophical logic, formal linguistics, and cognitive science and I did my PhD at the Institut Jean Nicod in between 2016 and 2019 under the supervision of Paul Égré and François Recanati. After my PhD, I taught general philosophy in high-school in France for two years, I was Recanati’s research assistant at le Collège de France for one year, I worked in Liège for three years as a postdoc, before joining the LanCog group in 2026. You can find more information about my research activities and access to my published papers by visiting my website over there: https://rouillel.github.io/index.html

 

Email: rouillel@edu.ulisboa.pt

Selected Publications

Rouillé, L. (2025) Stuck in the fictional periphery: A philosophical analysis of If on a winter’s night a traveller. ODRADEK. Studies in Philosophy of Literature, Aesthetics, and Theory of Cognition 10(1-2), pp. 53-80 (pdf)

Rouillé, L. (2024c) Ludic resistance: a new solution to the gamer’s paradox. Ethics and Information Technology 26, 32 (doi)

Rouillé, L. (2024b) How much of your self do you need to imagine being someone else? Topoï 43, pp. 1161-1171 (doi)

Rouillé, L. (2024a) On the existence of nonexistence commitments. Grazer Philosophische Studien 100(4), pp. 523-548 (doi)

Rouillé, L. (2023) The paradox of fictional creatures. Philosophies 8(5), 92 (doi)

Rouillé, L. (2021b) The logic of fictional existence. Synthesis 1, pp. 111-132 (pdf)

Rouillé, L. (2021a) Anti-realism about fictional names at work: a new theory for metafictional sentences. Organon F 28(1), pp.223-252 (doi)

Rouillé, L. (2020) From fictional disagreements to thought experiments. Argumenta 6(1), pp.99-116 (doi)

Rouillé, L. (2016) Derrière les noms dans la fiction. Le Pardaillan (1), pp.27-37 (pdf)