Colin Jager
Biographic Data
| ID | 789220 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Colin Jager |
| GIVEN NAMES | Colin |
| FAMILY NAME | Jager |
| SIGNATURE | JAGER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universität Innsbruck |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1962-158X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Suspension of Disbelief, Again
How does narrative fiction manage the unusual, the surprising, or the supernatural? For several hundred years, the common answer to this question has been variously known as fictionality, the suspension of disbelief, or ironic credulity. This essay begins with this most familiar description of literary art, which has helped to write a history of literature as a mode of secularism, allowing irrationality a certain amount of free play but without e…
Testimonial Authority and Knowledge Transmission
Is speaker knowledge necessary or sufficient for enabling hearers to know from testimony? Here we offer a novel argument for the answer no, based on the systematic effects of partial belief and the hearer’s view prior to hearing testimony. Modelling partial belief by credence, we show that a requirement entailed by the principles of necessity and sufficiency apparent in the literature is inconsistent with Bayesian updating. Consequently, even whe…
The social fabric of understanding: Equilibrium, authority, and epistemic empathy
We discuss the social-epistemic aspects of Catherine Elgin’s theory of reflective equilibrium and understanding and argue that it yields an argument for the view that a crucial social-epistemic function of epistemic authorities is to foster understanding in their communities. We explore the competences that enable epistemic authorities to fulfil this role and argue that among them is an epistemic virtue we call “epistemic empathy”
Religious experience and the probability of theism: Comments on Swinburne
I discuss the role of religious experience in Richard Swinburne's probabilistic case for theism. Swinburne draws on his principle of credulity to argue that, if in addition to other evidence we consider that many people have theistic religious experiences, theism comes out as more probable than not. However, on many plausible probability assignments for the relevant non-experiential evidence, the conditional probability of theism already converge…
More Questions than Answers
We all owe Jonathan Sheehan and Dror Wahrman our thanks for this terrific and enlightening book. I, at least, was unaware of how thoroughly the language and thought-patterns of self-organization ha
Working with A Secular Age: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Charles Taylor's Master Narrative
Charles Taylor’s monumental book A Secular Age has been extensively discussed, criticized, and worked on. This volume, by contrast, explores ways of working with Taylor’s book, especially its potentials and limits for individual research projects. Due to its wide reception, it has initiated a truly interdisciplinary object of study; with essays drawn from various research fields, this volume fosters substantial conversation across disciplines
Looking into meta-emotions
Crossing the Line
Research Article| December 01 2014 Crossing the Line: Blasphemy, Time, and Anonymity Colin Jager Colin Jager Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2014) 22 (2): 1–30. https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.22.2.0001 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation …
Process Reliabilism and the Value Problem
Alvin Goldman and Erik Olsson have recently proposed a novel solution to the value problem in epistemology, i.e., to the question of how to account for the apparent surplus value of knowledge over mere true belief. Their “conditional probability solution” maintains that even simple process reliabilism can account for the added value of knowledge, since forming true beliefs in a reliable way raises the objective probability that the subject will h…
Reliability and Future True Belief: Reply to Olsson and Jönsson
In “Process Reliabilism and the Value Problem” I argue that Erik Olsson and Alvin Goldman's conditional probability solution to the value problem in epistemology is unsuccessful and that it makes significant internalist concessions. In “Kinds of Learning and the Likelihood of Future True Beliefs” Olsson and Martin Jönsson try to show that my argument does “not in the end reduce the plausibility” of Olsson and Goldman's account. Here I argue that,…
Literary Enchantment and Literary Opposition From Hume to Scott
Research Article| July 01 2009 LITERARY ENCHANTMENT AND LITERARY OPPOSITION FROM HUME TO SCOTT Colin Jager Colin Jager Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal (2009) 92 (1-2): 99–128. https://doi.org/10.2307/41179240 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Colin Jager; LITERARY ENCHANTMENT AND LITERARY OPPOSITION FROM HUME TO SCOTT. Soundings: An Interdisc…
Romanticism/Secularization/Secularism
The romantic period is often considered a time of secularization. However, recent critiques of the secularization thesis, as well as recent scholarly accounts of romanticism, have questioned this assumption. At the same time, a number of scholars have begun to analyze secularism itself. Secularism, some have suggested, actually ‘invents’ the concept of religion during the period of European colonialism. It is therefore not possible to investigate…
Epistemology: Contexts, Values, Disagreement: Proceedings of the 34th International Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium in Kirchberg, 2011
This volume collects papers that were presented at the 34th International Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium 2011 in Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria. They focus on five key debates in contemporary epistemology: Does the term “to know” vary its meaning according to features of the contexts in which it is uttered? What role may “epistemic virtues” play in our cognitive activities? What is the surplus value of having knowledge instead of mere true belief? …
A Poetics of Dissent; or, Pantisocracy in America
A Poetics of Dissent; or, Pantisocracy in America Colin Jager (bio) To know a bit more about the threads that trace the ordinary ways and forgotten paths of utopia, it would be better to follow the labor of the poets. — Jacques Ranciere, Short Voyages to the Land of the People The past can be seized only as an image, which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again. — Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of H…
After the Secular: The Subject of Romanticism
Research Article| May 01 2006 After the Secular: The Subject of Romanticism Colin Jager Colin Jager Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2006) 18 (2): 301–321. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2006-005 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Colin Jager; After the Secular: The Subject of Romanticism. Public Culture 1 May 2006; 18 (2): 301–321. doi: htt…
The social fabric of understanding: Equilibrium, authority, and epistemic empathy
We discuss the social-epistemic aspects of Catherine Elgin’s theory of reflective equilibrium and understanding and argue that it yields an argument for the view that a crucial social-epistemic function of epistemic authorities is to foster understanding in their communities. We explore the competences that enable epistemic authorities to fulfil this role and argue that among them is an epistemic virtue we call “epistemic empathy”
Testimonial Authority and Knowledge Transmission
Is speaker knowledge necessary or sufficient for enabling hearers to know from testimony? Here we offer a novel argument for the answer no, based on the systematic effects of partial belief and the hearer’s view prior to hearing testimony. Modelling partial belief by credence, we show that a requirement entailed by the principles of necessity and sufficiency apparent in the literature is inconsistent with Bayesian updating. Consequently, even whe…
Looking into meta-emotions
Romanticism/Secularization/Secularism
The romantic period is often considered a time of secularization. However, recent critiques of the secularization thesis, as well as recent scholarly accounts of romanticism, have questioned this assumption. At the same time, a number of scholars have begun to analyze secularism itself. Secularism, some have suggested, actually ‘invents’ the concept of religion during the period of European colonialism. It is therefore not possible to investigate…
After the Secular: The Subject of Romanticism
Research Article| May 01 2006 After the Secular: The Subject of Romanticism Colin Jager Colin Jager Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2006) 18 (2): 301–321. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2006-005 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Colin Jager; After the Secular: The Subject of Romanticism. Public Culture 1 May 2006; 18 (2): 301–321. doi: htt…
After the Secular: The Subject of Romanticism
Research Article| May 01 2006 After the Secular: The Subject of Romanticism Colin Jager Colin Jager Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2006) 18 (2): 301–321. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2006-005 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Colin Jager; After the Secular: The Subject of Romanticism. Public Culture 1 May 2006; 18 (2): 301–321. doi: htt…
Epistemology: Contexts, Values, Disagreement: Proceedings of the 34th International Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium in Kirchberg, 2011
This volume collects papers that were presented at the 34th International Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium 2011 in Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria. They focus on five key debates in contemporary epistemology: Does the term “to know” vary its meaning according to features of the contexts in which it is uttered? What role may “epistemic virtues” play in our cognitive activities? What is the surplus value of having knowledge instead of mere true belief? …
A Poetics of Dissent; or, Pantisocracy in America
A Poetics of Dissent; or, Pantisocracy in America Colin Jager (bio) To know a bit more about the threads that trace the ordinary ways and forgotten paths of utopia, it would be better to follow the labor of the poets. — Jacques Ranciere, Short Voyages to the Land of the People The past can be seized only as an image, which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again. — Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of H…
Romanticism/Secularization/Secularism
The romantic period is often considered a time of secularization. However, recent critiques of the secularization thesis, as well as recent scholarly accounts of romanticism, have questioned this assumption. At the same time, a number of scholars have begun to analyze secularism itself. Secularism, some have suggested, actually ‘invents’ the concept of religion during the period of European colonialism. It is therefore not possible to investigate…
Literary Enchantment and Literary Opposition From Hume to Scott
Research Article| July 01 2009 LITERARY ENCHANTMENT AND LITERARY OPPOSITION FROM HUME TO SCOTT Colin Jager Colin Jager Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal (2009) 92 (1-2): 99–128. https://doi.org/10.2307/41179240 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Colin Jager; LITERARY ENCHANTMENT AND LITERARY OPPOSITION FROM HUME TO SCOTT. Soundings: An Interdisc…
Process Reliabilism and the Value Problem
Alvin Goldman and Erik Olsson have recently proposed a novel solution to the value problem in epistemology, i.e., to the question of how to account for the apparent surplus value of knowledge over mere true belief. Their “conditional probability solution” maintains that even simple process reliabilism can account for the added value of knowledge, since forming true beliefs in a reliable way raises the objective probability that the subject will h…
Reliability and Future True Belief: Reply to Olsson and Jönsson
In “Process Reliabilism and the Value Problem” I argue that Erik Olsson and Alvin Goldman's conditional probability solution to the value problem in epistemology is unsuccessful and that it makes significant internalist concessions. In “Kinds of Learning and the Likelihood of Future True Beliefs” Olsson and Martin Jönsson try to show that my argument does “not in the end reduce the plausibility” of Olsson and Goldman's account. Here I argue that,…
Crossing the Line
Research Article| December 01 2014 Crossing the Line: Blasphemy, Time, and Anonymity Colin Jager Colin Jager Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2014) 22 (2): 1–30. https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.22.2.0001 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation …
Looking into meta-emotions
Working with A Secular Age: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Charles Taylor's Master Narrative
Charles Taylor’s monumental book A Secular Age has been extensively discussed, criticized, and worked on. This volume, by contrast, explores ways of working with Taylor’s book, especially its potentials and limits for individual research projects. Due to its wide reception, it has initiated a truly interdisciplinary object of study; with essays drawn from various research fields, this volume fosters substantial conversation across disciplines
Religious experience and the probability of theism: Comments on Swinburne
I discuss the role of religious experience in Richard Swinburne's probabilistic case for theism. Swinburne draws on his principle of credulity to argue that, if in addition to other evidence we consider that many people have theistic religious experiences, theism comes out as more probable than not. However, on many plausible probability assignments for the relevant non-experiential evidence, the conditional probability of theism already converge…
More Questions than Answers
We all owe Jonathan Sheehan and Dror Wahrman our thanks for this terrific and enlightening book. I, at least, was unaware of how thoroughly the language and thought-patterns of self-organization ha
The social fabric of understanding: Equilibrium, authority, and epistemic empathy
We discuss the social-epistemic aspects of Catherine Elgin’s theory of reflective equilibrium and understanding and argue that it yields an argument for the view that a crucial social-epistemic function of epistemic authorities is to foster understanding in their communities. We explore the competences that enable epistemic authorities to fulfil this role and argue that among them is an epistemic virtue we call “epistemic empathy”
The Suspension of Disbelief, Again
How does narrative fiction manage the unusual, the surprising, or the supernatural? For several hundred years, the common answer to this question has been variously known as fictionality, the suspension of disbelief, or ironic credulity. This essay begins with this most familiar description of literary art, which has helped to write a history of literature as a mode of secularism, allowing irrationality a certain amount of free play but without e…
Testimonial Authority and Knowledge Transmission
Is speaker knowledge necessary or sufficient for enabling hearers to know from testimony? Here we offer a novel argument for the answer no, based on the systematic effects of partial belief and the hearer’s view prior to hearing testimony. Modelling partial belief by credence, we show that a requirement entailed by the principles of necessity and sufficiency apparent in the literature is inconsistent with Bayesian updating. Consequently, even whe…
Philosophy (12 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (4 works)