 It should be clear from the preceding sections that the basic idea of nonconceptual content provides a promising tool for tackling a range of problems in the philosophy of mind and cognition. Allowing that a creature’s representational capacities can outstrip its conceptual capacities makes it possible for philosophers and cognitive scientists to study aspects of cognition and behavior that remain outside the scope of more traditional approaches—from subpersonal computational mechanisms to the psychological states of non-human animals and human infants to the nature of perceptual experience.