ABSTRACT
Consciousness is extremely difficult to explain within the naturalist framework that has prevailed in analytic philosophy of mind for most of the twentieth century, and into the twenty-first. Intentionality, on the other hand, insofar as it is a phenomenon that is not essentially tied to consciousness, was seen to be more tractable, and various theories grounding it in or reducing it to natural relations between the brain and the world it represents were proposed and developed. There is a common point to be made about the role of phenomenology in determining conceptual and perceptual intentionality (content). The diagnosis offered by advocates of phenomenal intentionality is that such difficulties are bound to arise whenever the intrinsic properties of representations are ignored. In spite of the fact that consciousness and phenomenality stubbornly resist naturalistic explanation, no theory of intentionality can afford to ignore them.
