ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author provides a few reasons to think the view falls short of a full account of the relationship between phenomenal character and phenomenal value. First, it is unclear whether this view gets the phenomenology right. It may be an oversimplification of the phenomenal character of evaluative experiences to divide experiences into more and less positive and negative. Second, this view runs into trouble in any case when attempting to explain the way experiences bear value. Regarding comparisons of an experience's value, the author introduced the notion of an evaluative space. Regarding inter-entity comparisons of value, he again appealed to the notion of an evaluative space. The author characterized an entity's evaluative space in terms of two interacting measures: the space's size and its internal coherence. He suggested that along certain dimensions, increases in size and in internal coherence increase an entity's potential for tokening valuable and disvaluable experiences.
