Alina Wang

• Can we have emotions for fictional characters as we do for real-life people?
• Is belief transparent? How do we come to first-personally know our beliefs?
• Do we have voluntary control over what we believe? What does it mean to be self-deceived?
• Might the concept of imagination confuse distinct attitudes, such as anticipating something sensed as real and making something up contrary to what’s sensed as real?
• Do psychoanalytic concepts like repression and sublimation track actual mental phenomena? If so, could understanding these help address questions like those above?

My work concerns questions like these.