Louis DeRosset

Louis deRosset received his Ph.D. in philosophy from UCLA in 2005. Before joining Notre Dame in 2026, he worked in the philosophy department at the University of Vermont. He is principally interested in metaphysics, with related interests in philosophy of language and philosophical logic.

Representative Publications

* "Emergence from Ground" (/Philosophical Studies/, forthcoming).
* "Legal Grounds" (/Noûs/, 2026).
* "Abstraction and Grounding" (with Øystein Linnebo) (/Philosophy and Phenomenological Research/, 2024).
* "A Semantic Framework for the Impure Logic of Ground" (/Journal of Philosophical Logic/, 2024).
* "A Semantics for the Impure Logic of Ground" (with Kit Fine) (/Journal of Philosophical Logic/, 2023)
* /Fundamental Things: Theory and Applications of Grounding/ (Oxford University Press, 2023).
* "Hollow Truth" (/Philosophical Review, 2021). Reprinted in /Philosophers Annual/, 2022.
* "Grounding the Unreal" (/Philosophical and Phenomenological Research/, 2017).
* "Analyticity and Ontology" (/Oxford Studies in Metaphysics/, 2015). Winner of the 2013 Marc Sanders Prize in Metaphysics.
* "Grounding Explanations" (/Philosophers' Imprint/, 2013).
* "Getting Priority Straight" (/Philosophical Studies/, 2010).
* "Production and Necessity" (/Philosophical Review/, 2009).