ABSTRACT
Phenomenal character qualifies the particular way in which it is like something to have a particular experience. Evaluative phenomenal properties are evaluative in virtue of the fact that evaluation of some item – where item is broadly construed to include some other property, some object, event, state of affairs, relation, proposition, or whatever – is embedded in the relevant phenomenal character. Exactly how affective properties figure in evaluative experiences quite generally is a matter of controversy. Affective phenomenal properties are phenomenal properties essential to affective experience: that is, hedonic experiences and emotional experiences. Affective phenomenal properties are those responsible for the phenomenal character of painfulness present in an experience of a stubbed toe, the sinking character of sadness in an experience of grief, the quick thrilling burst present in the falling experience that comes with cliff jumping.
