  There are currently two outstanding issues facing an intentionalist approach to phenomenal experiences. The first is whether the intentionalist account can be extended to the phenomenal character of all sensory and bodily experiences. This is at present an open question (cf. Crane, 2007). The second issue is whether the nonconceptual content of perceptual experiences can be objective in representing and referring to particular objects, or whether only conceptual thoughts can be objective and represent or refer to particular objects. On the one hand, Evans (1982), Dretske (1981, 1995) and Peacocke (1992) assume that propositional thought or conceptual content is required to achieve reference to particulars. On the other hand, Burge (2010) has offered powerful considerations (mostly derived from perceptual psychology) in favor of the objectivity of purely perceptual representations. On Burge’s view, perceptual representations are both sensory representations and objective representations of the environment: they have nonconceptual content, but they do not need to be supplemented by conceptual capacities in order to represent particulars.