Alien Experience

Maura Tumulty is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Colgate University. She received her PhD from the University of Pittsburgh, her MSc from the University of Edinburgh, and her BA from Williams College. She is interested in questions at the intersection of philosophy of mind and moral psychology.

Acknowledgements
Introduction

Chapter 1: Alien Experience
Section 1: Agency in attitudes-and experience?
Section 2: A sketch of alienated experience
Section 3: How could such endorsement or rejection be significant?
Section 4: Ways an agent can reject an experience
Section 5: Consequences and concerns

Chapter 2: Self-Control
Section 1: Judgment sensitivity
Section 2: Managerial self-control
Section 3: Distinctively first-personal managerial self-control
Section 4: Imagination and instrumental reasons
Section 5: Alienable experiences
Section 6: Will-power and obsession

Chapter 3: The Forensic Approach to Experience
Section 1: Alienation and false belief
Section 2: The forensic approach to experience
Section 3: A bit more about cognitive penetration
Section 4: What if the IAT research program is built on sand?
Section 5: Are we presupposing an ideal experience?

Chapter 4: Paths to Alienation
Section 1: Food, fit, fallacy
Section 2: Experiencing buildings
Section 3: Traces of atrocity
Section 4: Responding to troubling invitations

Chapter 5: Consequences for Philosophy of Perception
Section 1: Naïve realism
Section 2: Hallucination and illusion
Section 3: Denying high-level properties
Section 4: The need for representation
Section 5: Wishful seeing