Towards affective-evaluativism: the intentional structure of unpleasant pain experience

Mitchell, Jonathan 2025. Towards affective-evaluativism: the intentional structure of unpleasant pain experience. Philosophical Quarterly 75 , pp. 693-717. 10.1093/pq/pqae002

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Abstract

Evaluativism about unpleasant pains offers one way to think about unpleasant pain experience. However, extant Evaluativist views do not pay enough attention to the affective dimension of pain experience and the complex relations between the affective, evaluative and sensory dimensions. This paper clarifies these relations and provides a view which more closely reflects the phenomenology of unpleasant pains. It argues that the intentional structure of paradigmatic unpleasant pain is as follows: unpleasant pains essentially involve a proprietary intentional mode—what I call affective-interoception—and a distinctive kind of evaluatively qualified sensory content. The resulting view is Affective-Evaluativism.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > English, Communication and Philosophy
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
ISSN:	0031-8094
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	6 February 2024
Date of Acceptance:	4 January 2024
Last Modified:	15 Apr 2025 14:29
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/166164

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