
Alina Wang
Office hours: Tues 5-6
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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.