Jessica Collins

I’m an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University in the City of New York.
My research is driven by a desire to understand the nature of rationality. I mostly spend my time thinking about formal epistemology and decision theory and making photographs on black & white film.

I have worked in the past on counterfactuals and the metaphysics of causation. My current projects focus on the formal theory of imaging as a method of supposition, on the foundations of causal decision theory, and on the manufacture of decentralized consensus: the epistemology of the blockchain.

I am teaching two seminars in the Spring of 2022:

PHIL3912 Ramsey
PHIL9485 Philosophy of Language: Conditionals

The first is for undergraduate senior majors, the second is for graduate students.

jessica.collins@columbia.edu