Romy Jaster
I am a philosopher at the Institute of Philosophy at Humboldt University Berlin, where I am responsible for the "Philosophy & the Public Sphere" research area. Currently, I am a research fellow at the Human Abilities Centre. I work on abilities and free will, but also on disinformation, especially fake news, conspiracy theories, political bullshit, and echo chambers. 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 disinformation and public discourse, specifically in the digital age - 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" (2025), with David Lanius, in: A. Wiegmann (Hg.): Lying, Fake News, and Bullshit, London: Bloomsbury.
- "Speaking of Fake News: Definitions and Dimensions" (2021), with 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), with David Lanius, Versus 127(2): 207-224.
- "Dispositional Accounts of Abilities" (2017), with Barbara Vetter, Philosophy Compass. 2017;12:e12432.
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