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Alina Wang

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E-mail: alina_wang@berkeley.edu

Dissertation advisors: Michael Martin and Alva Noë

  • 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 of repression and sublimation track actual mental phenomena? If so, could understanding them address questions like those above?

My work concerns questions like these.