Alina Wang

• How can we first-personally know what we believe without having to engage in observation of or inferences about ourselves?
• What constraints does Moore’s paradox set on our understanding of the transparency of belief and self-knowledge?
• What constitutes the mental phenomena colloquially called repression and self-deception? What rational mental processes are highlighted by these apparently “detective” cases of self-knowledge?
• Can we have emotions about what we know to be imaginary? Or are emotions, like belief and perception, essentially ways of being responsive to what’s manifestly real? (Cf. the “paradox of fiction”)

My work concerns questions like these.