Philosophy Department

Education

• Ph.D., Philosophy, Monash University, 2011
• B.A., Philosophy and Computer Science , Monash University, 2006

About

Rohan joined the department at UC Davis in 2018. Prior to that he was a post-doctoral researcher on the ‘Roots of Deduction’ project at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.

Research Focus

Rohan's research is in logic, predominantly focusing on philosophical and technical issues concerning modal logic, translations between logics, proof theory, non-classical logic, and the semantic paradoxes. Of particular interest are questions concerning the philosophical significance of translation and expressivity results in logic, and problems and prospects for substructural, particularly nonreflexive and nontransitive, resolutions of the semantic paradoxes. He is generally interested in any area of philosophy where formal methods, especially those taken from logic and computer science, can be fruitfully applied.

Publications

• Rohan French and David Ripley (forthcoming), Valuations: Bi, Tri, and Tetra, Studia Logica, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11225-018-9837-1
• Rohan French, Notational Variance and its Variants (forthcoming), Topoi, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11245-017-9478-4
• Franz Berto, and Rohan French, and Graham Priest, and David Ripley (2018), Williamson on counterpossibles, The Journal of Philosophical Logic 47, 693-713, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10992-017-9446-x
• Rohan French (2016), Structural Reflexivity and the Paradoxes of Self-Reference, Ergo 3, 113-131, http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/ergo.12405314.0003.005
• Rohan French (2016), An Argument for the Ontological Innocence of Mereology, Erkenntnis 81, 683-704, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10670-015-9762-x

Teaching

Rohan's teaching is focused on philosophical and technical issues in logic.