Christoph Jäger

Christoph Jäger (* 1965 ) is a German philosopher .

Life

He studied philosophy at the University of Münster , the University of Hamburg and, as a doctoral scholarship holder from the German National Academic Foundation , at Oxford University . After completing his Magister Artium in Philosophy in Münster in 1992 with a thesis on Gottlob Frege and his doctorate in Münster in 1994 with a thesis on self-reference and self-confidence, he was a research assistant at the Institute for Philosophy at the University of Leipzig . In 2001 he taught Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Georgetown University , Washington, in 2007 as James Collins Visiting Professor in the Department of Philosophy at St. Louis University and from 2005 to 2010 as University Lecturer in Philosophy at King's College, University of Aberdeen . After completing his habilitation in philosophy in 2003 at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy in Leipzig ( venia legendi for philosophy), he was also a Heisenberg scholar of the German Research Foundation and visiting professor at the Institute for Christian Philosophy at the University of Innsbruck . Since 2014 he has been teaching there as a university professor for philosophy with a focus on epistemology and philosophy of the Middle Ages.

His research interests are social epistemology, general epistemology, philosophy of religion, medieval theories of free will and the theory of emotions.

Fonts (selection)

• Self-reference and self-confidence , Paderborn 1999, ISBN 3-89785-048-6 (also dissertation, Münster 1994).
• Justification and Religious Belief , OCLC 76446403 (habilitation thesis, Leipzig 2003).

Editing

• Analytical Philosophy of Religion ( UTB 2021), Paderborn 1998, ISBN 3-8252-2021-4 .
• with Georg Meggle : Art and Knowledge ( Art Philosophy 6), Paderborn 2005, ISBN 3-89785-352-3 .
• with Elke Brendel : Contextualisms in Epistemology , Dordrecht 2005, ISBN 978-1-4020-3181-6 .
• with Winfried Löffler : Epistemology. Contexts, values, disagreement. Proceedings of the 34th International Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium in Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria 2011 ( Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society. New Series 19), Lancaster 2012, ISBN 3-86838-160-0 .
• with Hans Kraml and Gerhard Leibold : Luis de Molina : Divine plan and human freedom. Concordia, Disputation 52 ( Philosophical Library 695), Hamburg 2018, ISBN 3-7873-3023-2 .

Web links

• University of Innsbruck