Siegfried Jaag
Areas of Specialization
- Philosophy of Science
- Metaphysics of Science
Areas of Competence
- Philosophy of Mind
- Logic
- Philosophy of Language
Publications
Monograph
- Naturgesetze. Berlin: De Gruyter (Edition: Grundthemen Philosophie), 2020. (mit M. Schrenk)
Edited Volume
- Humean laws for human agents. Oxford: Oxford University Press, unter Vertrag. (mit M. Hicks and C. Loew)
Papers in Peer Reviewed Journals
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A puzzle about laws and explanation. Synthese, 2021.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-021-03061-3 -
Why defend Humean Supervenience? The Journal of Philosophy, 2020. (mit C. Loew)
https://www.pdcnet.org/jphil/content/jphil_2020_0117_0007_0387_0406 - Humean laws and (nested) counterfactuals. The Philosophical Quarterly, 2020. (mit C. Loew)
https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqz037
Gewinner des GAP 2018 Best Paper Award - What Humeans should say about tied best systems. Analysis, 2019. (mit C. Loew)
https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anz047 - Making best systems best for us. Synthese, 2018. (mit C. Loew)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-1829-1 - Dispositional essentialism and the grounding of natural modality. Philosophers’ Imprint, 14(34): 1–21, 2014.
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/p/phimp/3521354.0014.034/1
Articles in Handbooks, Encyclopedias, and Edited Volumes
- Ceteris Paribus Laws. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2019 Edition), 2019 (mit A. Reutlinger, G. Schurz, and A. Hüttemann)
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ceteris-paribus/ - Introduction to Humean laws for human agents. In: M. Hicks, S. Jaag und C. Loew (Hg.): Humean laws for human agents. Oxford: Oxford University Press, unter Vertrag.
- Konnektionismus und neuronale Netze. In: V. Hoffmann-Kolss (Hg.): Handbuch Philosophie des Geistes, unter Vertrag, Stuttgart: Metzler.
- Naturgesetze. In: M. Schrenk (Hg.): Handbuch der Metaphysik, 2017, Stuttgart: Metzler.
Dissertation
- Explaining laws of nature: A metaphysical investigation into the natural principles governing the universe, Universität Luxemburg, 2015.
Selected Presentations
- TBA
2nd Humean Laws Workshop, Harvard, 2020 - TBA
FraMEPhys, Birmingham, 2020 - Laws of nature from a Hum(e)an perspective
Lehrstuhl für theoretische Philosophie der Neuzeit und Gegenwart, Köln, 2020 - Humean Governing (mit C. Loew)
1st Humean Laws Workshop, Harvard, 2019
Kolloquium Theoretische Philosophie, Köln 2019 - Nomic necessity from a Hum(e)an perspective
Essence and Necessity Workshop, Tübingen, 2018 - Humean reductionism and iterated counterfactuals (mit C. Loew)
GAP 10, Köln, 2018
Society for the Metaphysics of Science, Mailand, 2018
BSPS, Oxford, 2018
Properties and Laws in the Light of Inductive Metaphysics, Düsseldorf, 2018 - Why care about Humean Supervenience?
Philosophical Colloquium, Bonn, 2017 - Laws don’t really explain their instances
Society for the Metaphysics of Science, New York, 2017