Abstract
Recent decades have witnessed a subtle shift within the philosophy of mind. Where once questions about consciousness took center stage, more recent debates have focused on a related, but importantly distinct topic: perception. And, though many of these more recent debates turn on questions about the nature of a perceiving subject's conscious experience, the old worries about how to employ scientific evidence in arguments about consciousness seem to have been left behind. I argue that the shift in rhetorical focus and terminology-from consciousness and phenomenal character to perception and representation-does not actually make the old, unresolved problems any less pressing. In debates about the nature of perceptual experience-most prominently, those between Relationalists and Representationalists-there is still an explanatory gap that science cannot bridge, and the real philosophical issues fall squarely within that gap.