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Alina Wang

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E-mail: alina_wang@berkeley.edu

Dissertation advisors: Michael Martin and Alva Noë

  • What does the distinctively first-person manner by which we can know our beliefs consist in?
  • Do we have voluntary control over what we believe?
  • What does self-deception consist in?
  • While we believe that fictional things don’t exist, can we have emotions for them, as we do for real-life things?
  • Do psychoanalytic terms like ‘repression’ and ‘sublimation’ track actual mental phenomena? If so, might these pertain to the issues above?

My work concerns questions like these.