Dr. Romy Jaster
Since October 2016 Romy Jaster works as lecturer (wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) at the Chair for Theoretical Philosophy at the Humboldt University. Her research topics are abilities and free as well as prejudices and stereotypes.
Curriculum Vitae
Career path
since 10/2016 |
Lecturer at the Humboldt University of Berlin |
04/2016-09/2016 |
Lecturer at the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen-Nürnberg |
Education
10/2016 |
Doctoral degree| Humboldt University of Berlin | summa cum laude Dissertation: "Agents' Abilities" Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Barbara Vetter, Prof. Dr. Christian Nimtz |
2013/14 |
Scholarly visit | Australian National University, Canberra |
2013 | Scholarly visit | Ecole normale supérieure, Paris |
10/2009-01/2012 |
Master Philosophie | Humboldt University of Berlin |
10/2005-05/2009 |
Bachelor Philosophy & Linguistic| Bielefeld University |
2005 |
A-levels (Abitur); prior to this, four semesters (Bachelor Philosophy) during school at the Bielefeld University |
Publications
Contributions
"Contextualism and Gradability", in: T. Spitzley, M. Hoeltje & W. Spohn (Hgg.), GAP.8 Proceedings: 313-323.
"Dispositionen in der Metaphysik der Wissenschaften", Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung 66(3): 429-447. (With Barbara Vetter)
Current research projects
Articles and contributions
Revise and Resubmit at Philosophy Compass: "Dispositional Accounts of Abilities" (with Barbara Vetter)
Under review: "Can and Can't - A Paradox of Time Travel Revisited"
"Fähigkeitsbasierte Freiheitstheorien und das Problem des Determinismus" (Working title; with Ansgar Beckermann)
"Power as an Ability" (Working title; with Daniel James)
"Contextualizing Free Will" (working title)
"Yes, we can! The success view of abilities" (working title)
Editing
2019: Glaube und Irrationalität Münster: Mentis. (With Peter Schulte)
Current talks (Selection)
Upcoming:
"Power as an Ability" | ECAP München (mit Daniel James)
2017:
"Handlungsfähigkeiten" | Universität Essen
2015:
"From the Simple Conditional Analysis to the Success View of Ability" | Universität Konstanz
"Abilities" | GAP.9 | Osnabrück
"Vom Können - Eine Mögliche-Welten-Analyse von Handlungsfähigkeiten" | Fähigkeiten: Vom Tun, Können und Wissen | FU Berlin
"Can and Can't - A Paradox of Time Travel Revisited" | Lewisian Variations | Hamburg University
"Kausalität und kontrafaktische Abhängigkeit" (Commentary on Thomas Kroedel's "Mental Causation: A Counterfactual Theory") | G27 Meeting | HU Berlin
"A New Account of Agents' Abilities" | Language and World | Hamburg University
Conference organisation
DGPhil Congress "Norm und Natur" | September 2017, HU Berlin | Mitglied Steering Committe
"Causation, Control, and Abilities: The Agency Dimension of Moral Responsibility” | August 2017, HU Berlin | with Johannes Himmelreich
"(Ir)rationaler Glaube? Zur Vereinbarkeit von Rationalität und Theismus" | June 2016, Bielefeld university| with Peter Schulte
"Abilities, Agency, Freedom" | 2011, HU Berlin | with Barbara Vetter
"Neue Themen der analytischen Philosophie" (Students workshop) | 2010, HU Berlin
Teaching
Winter Semester 2017/18 | HS Fähigkeiten |
Ü Schreiben und Argumentieren / Argumentation und Sprache | |
Summer Semester 2017 | PS Unconscious Bias - Kognitive Verzerrungen und unbewusste Vorurteile |
Ü Schreiben & Argumentieren / Argumentation und Sprache | |
Winter Semester 2016/17 |
PS Willensfreiheit |
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HS Kontextualismus |
Contact
Office: Unter den Linden 6, Room 3023
E-Mail: romy.jaster /at/ hu-berlin.de
Telefon: (+49) (0)30 2093 2854
Postal address: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Philosophie, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin
Office hours
During semester breaks only upon request (please allow for up to two weeks waiting time for an appointment).
During the winter semester 2022-23: Thursdays 2:30pm-3:30pm.
In exceptional cases upon request.