Romy Jaster

I am a researcher and lecturer at the Institute of Philosophy at Humboldt University Berlin, where I am responsible for the "Philosophy & the Public Sphere" research area. Currently, I mainly work on disinformation, especially fake news, conspiracy theories, political bullshit, and echo chambers. Most of my previous work is on ability and free will. I have also written a number of papers on invitational issues related to academic freedom and so-called cancel culture. As a public philosopher, I mainly comment on topics related to epistemology, discourse and argumentation theory, especially in the context of disinformation, digital transformation of the public sphere, disagreement and discourse ethics - unfortunately entirely in German so far.

In 2020, my book "Agents' Abilities" was published by De Gruyter, and in 2019, a book on fake news in German, co-authored with David Lanius, was published by Reclam.

Here is some of my other published work: 

• "The Concept of Fake News" (vrsl. 2024), mit David Lanius, in: A. Wiegmann (Hg.): Lying, Fake News, and Bullshit, London: Bloomsbury. 
• "Speaking of Fake News: Definitions and Dimensions" (2021), mit David Lanius, in: S. Bernecker et al. (Hgg.): The Epistemology of Fake News, Oxford: Oxford University Press: 19-45. 
• "The ability to do otherwise and the new dispositionalism" (2021), Inquiry, 65(9), 1149-1166.
• "What Tim Can and Cannot Do: A Paradox of Time Travel Revisited" (2020), Kriterion - Journal of Philosophy 34 (4), 2020: 93-112.
• "Contextualizing Free Will" (2020), Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung 74 (2): 187-204.
• "What is Fake News?" (2018), mit David Lanius, Versus 127(2): 207-224.
• "Dispositional Accounts of Abilities" (2017), mit Barbara Vetter, Philosophy Compass. 2017;12:e12432.

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