Abstract
Nowadays there is a surge of interest in whether perceptions can justify empirical beliefs based on them. The debate, already present in the end of the last century, has been revived thanks to the emergence of new positions with respect to the nature of perceptual content and of justification, largely due to new ideas recently put forward by John McDowell and Tyler Burge. The paper critically examines these proposals and presents a conservative suggestion as to how perceptions should be conceived in order to directly figure as justifications for the corresponding empirical judgments.
