 Theories that distinguish impoverished sense perception from object perception and cognition have been challenged by what Firth (1949–50) called the “percept theory”, according to which immediate visual experience is of a three-dimensional visual world that manifests object-properties and possibilities for action. This is the tradition of James, the Gestalt psychologists, Gibson, and some of the appearance theories (e.g., Smith 2002). Such theories have grown in favor recently. But sense-data theories have also shown development. Many sense-data theories recognize the immediate objects of perception to be three-dimensional. This would permit a penny seen at a moderate slant to be described as appearing as a circle at a slant, not an ellipse. Finally, although treatment of color as a primitive property that literally inheres in sense data (whether such data are considered to be surface portions, mental objects, or third things) is not widely favored, it is also true that, metaphysically, there is no settled home for phenomenally experienced color. The endeavor to account for the phenomenal characteristics of objects and their properties is ongoing.