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: 


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