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Alina Wang

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E-mail: alina_wang@berkeley.edu

Dissertation advisors: Michael Martin and Alva Noë

  • How does first-person knowledge of our beliefs differ from ordinary empirical knowledge?
  • Do we have voluntary control over what we believe?
  • What constitutes the psychological phenomena that we colloquially make sense of in terms of repression and self-deception?
  • Can we have emotions about what’s manifestly imaginary, or must emotion be only about what’s manifestly real? If the latter, how does emotion differ from belief and perception as ways of being sensitive to reality?

My work concerns questions like these.