ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author suggests that the pre-theoretical view is that consciousness is important for the kind of value at issue, and that an argument for this view would be both useful and important. Non-derivative value occurs in the life of a subject when the subject has experiences with affective, evaluative phenomenal character. The idea the author exploring is that there is non-derivative value present within consciousness. That idea is consistent with a denial of dualism, or any other position on the metaphysics of consciousness. The view the author defend is that it is only essentially affective evaluative phenomenal properties that are necessary and sufficient for (some) non-derivative value in a subject's mental life. The author's idea is that of all the events that constitute a subject's mental life, those events presented to her within consciousness are special.
