Alina Wang

• Can we have emotions for fictional characters as we do for real-life people?
• Can you can know your own mind in a way by which no one else can?
• Do we have voluntary control over our beliefs?
• What do self-deception and akrasia consist in?
• Might the concept of the imagination confuse distinct mental attitudes, such as one’s anticipating what’s sensed as real and one’s making things up contrary to what’s sensed as real?
• Do psychoanalytic concepts of repression, sublimation, and the unconscious track actual mental phenomena? If so, could understanding these phenomena help address questions like those of the above?

My work concerns questions like these.