Jens Jäger



Published Papers:
  1. Loops and the Geometry of Chance
    forthcoming. Noûs. [abstract]
  2. Immortal Beauty: Does Existence Confirm Reincarnation?
    2022. Australasian Journal of Philosophy. [abstract]
  3. List and Menzies on High-Level Causation
    2021. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly. [abstract]
Under Review:
  • A paper arguing against extant counterfactualist reductions of causation [draft]
In Progress:
  • A paper developing a reductive account of causation compatible with synchronic laws
  • A paper on chance and the best-system account of laws of nature
  • A paper on the Gibbs paradox and haecceitism

Dissertation: Chance and Causation in Spacetime
Philosophical investigations into the nature of chance and causation have typically assumed standard spacetime backgrounds. My dissertation argues that this practice misses important lessons. By examining how chance and causation behave in non-standard spacetime settingsparticularly ones involving closed causal curves, spacetime trajectories which (roughly speaking) travel back in time and loop in on themselveswe glean fundamental insights missed by conventional approaches. Some of the claims I defend are that chances aren’t necessarily constant across intrinsically duplicate trials; that chance isn’t as intimately tied to time or causation as is usually thought; and that causation is better reduced to spacetime structure and laws than to counterfactual dependence.