ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that there are two distinct kinds of senses, immediate senses and reflective senses. Immediate senses are what we are immediately aware of when we are in an intentional mental state, while reflective senses are what we understand of an intentional mental state’s (putative) referent upon reflection. This chapter suggests an account of immediate and reflective senses that is based on the phenomenal intentionality theory, a theory of intentionality in terms of phenomenal consciousness. While the chapter focuses on the immediate and reflective senses of thoughts and the concepts they involve, its conclusions also apply to other mental instances of intentionality.
