Biography
I am currently completing a dissertation on the philosophy of (natural) language-modulation. The project is premised on Active Inference, a unifying framework which grounds the dynamics of cognition鈥攅xtended and expanded into collectives, technological tendrils and beyond鈥攗nder the axis of variational free energy-minimization. My main interest is in exploring the productive constraints implied by this framework, and what these might mean for distant images of ourselves. The PhD project has taken the form of a so-called 鈥渓iving book鈥 and can be found at: . I am part of the EUR Sectorplan SSH-Breed on digitalization.
Besides this, together with five other scholars we function as the Noise Research Union (NRU), where we work on the concept of noise and its multiple (evolving) interpretations. We organize diagramming workshops, research seminars and collective publications. More information can be found at: .
I also teach at the art academy in Rotterdam, and at the design academy in Eindhoven. At both these institutions my focus is exploring philosophy through art and design (and vice versa), and motivating students to chase the philosophical implications of their interests and embeddings.
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Work
- S. A.M. van Kessel, A. F. Schoffelen, K. H.S. van Son, D. W. Notermans, J. A. Severin, F. Bakhshi-Raiez, F. Velthuis, M. Schipper, D. Dongelmans, A. Verbon, C. C.H. Wielders, , W. Altorf - van der Kuil, S. M. Bierman, S. C. de Greeff, S. R. Groenendijk, R. Hertroys, L. Kruithof, I. M. Nauta, D. W. Notermans, J. Polman, W. J. van den Reek, A. F. Schoffelen, F. Velthuis, C. C.H. Wielders, B. J. de Wit, R. E. Zoetigheid, W. van den Bijllaardt, E. M. Kraan, M. B. Haeseker, J. M. da Silva, E. de Jong, B. Maraha, M. P.A. van Meer, B. B. Wintermans, V. Hira, A. E. Muller, M. Wong, P. Huizinga, S. de Jager, E. Schaftenaar, J. C. Rahamat-Langendoen, L. G.M. Bode, M. van Rijn, S. Dinant, M. den Reijer, D. W. van Dam, A. L.E. van Arkel, M. de Graaf, A. Troelstra & H. R.A. Streefkerk (2026) - - Journal of Hospital Infection, 170, 9-16 - doi: -
- Sonia de Jager (2026) -
- Sonia de Jager (2026) - - Philosophical Psychology, 39 (5), 1859-1893 - doi: -
- Mahault Albarracin, Sonia de Jager & David Hyland (2025) - - Entropy, 27 (5) - doi: -
- S. de Jager (2023) - - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 10 (1), 1-10 - doi: -
- Sonia de Jager (2023) - - Angelaki - Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 28 (3), 111-132 - doi: -
- Koen Swinnen, Shu Li, Sonia de Jager & Carlo Cavicchia (2026) - 2nd Annual SSH-Breed Sectorplan Conference 'The Influence of Digitalisation on Work, Prosperity and Entrepreneurship' (Organiser)
Activiteit: Organising and contributing to an event 鈥 Academic - Sonia de Jager (2025) - Negation as a foundation and as an open question: how deep conceptual analysis can lead to mathematical innovation in the classroom (Speaker)
Activiteit: Invited talk 鈥 Academic - Sonia de Jager (2024) - Active ignorance (or: the negintelligible): avoiding epistemic pitfalls in the image of Active Inference (Speaker)
Activiteit: Invited talk 鈥 Academic - Sonia de Jager (2024) - Ph盲nomenologie des Krankengeistes: A neuroendocrinologically-informed, philosophical account of allostasis under the influence of corticosteroids (Speaker)
Activiteit: Invited talk 鈥 Academic - Sonia de Jager (2024) - All things mirrored: A speculation into the effects of reflection(s), duplication and symmetry through Active Inference (Speaker)
Activiteit: Invited talk 鈥 Academic - Sonia de Jager (2024) - Complexity, criticality and the limits of thought (Speaker)
Activiteit: Invited talk 鈥 Academic - Sonia de Jager & Ryan Kopaitich (2024) - Freed from desire: Alienation, Subjectivity and the Monetization of Desire (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation 鈥 Academic - Sonia de Jager, Sjoerd van Tuinen & Katharina Dany Martin (2024) - Instructor at Deleuze and Guattari Studies Camp (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation 鈥 Academic - Sjoerd van Tuinen, Sonia de Jager, Joost De Raeymaecker & David van Putten (2024) - Schematism (Organiser)
Activiteit: Organising and contributing to an event 鈥 Academic - Sonia de Jager (2024) - Active ignorance at Predictive Self-Modeling and the Phenomenology of Psychosis (Speaker)
Activiteit: Invited talk 鈥 Academic
Design Academy Eindhoven
- Start date approval
- maart 2025
- End date approval
- februari 2028
- Place
- EINDHOVEN
- Description
- Docent theorie + filosofie + scriptie begeleiding
Hogeschool Rotterdam: Willem de Kooning Academie
- Start date approval
- maart 2025
- End date approval
- februari 2028
- Place
- ROTTERDAM
- Description
- Docent theorie + filosofie + scriptie begeleiding
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- FW-BA3006F
Lecturer
- Start date approval
- januari 2023
Founding member
- Start date approval
- januari 2022
Lecturer
- Start date approval
- september 2019
