# Conative Phenomenology **Opening (not a real abstract):** Like the previous chapter, this one has two parts. The first (§§1–2) presents a case for primitivism about conative phenomenology. This is the claim, roughly, that at least some of our conative mental life instantiates phenomenal properties irreducible to any others. The second part (§§3–7) attempts to outline a nonreductive characterization of the relevant phenomenal properties, suggesting that the fundamental form of our conative experience is a proprietary phenomenology of deciding-and-then-trying. **Authors:** [[Kriegel]]