ABSTRACT
This chapter considers two ways of abstractly characterizing the space. First, psychologists might characterize an evaluative space in terms of the number, type, and subtlety of a subject's affective-evaluative capacities, where these are the capacities most directly relevant to the affective-evaluative properties of the entity's experiences. A second characterization of the evaluative space focuses on interactions between various affective-evaluative capacities and other elements of an entity's mental life. Prima facie, the more internally coherent an entity's evaluative space, the more complex and coherent that entity's experiences will be. According to Alan Goldman, aesthetic experience simultaneously engages a range of cognitive and evaluative capacities. Given the manifest contributions of memory, learning, reasoning, and so on to many of our thick experiences, it is plausible that an entity with a high level of internal coherence may thereby enjoy a larger evaluative space.
