This project will explore issues connected with the exact nature of the phenomenal aspects of experience: these are the colours, sounds, and so on, which are immediately present in conscious experience. A poll is presented on the website and an interactive area of the site will be developed as the project develops. There is currently broad-ranging debate about the reality and cognitive role of phenomenal qualities. There is no settled view about their status either as subjective – belonging to inner mental items of some kind – or as objective, dependent in some way upon the properties of the surrounding objects perceived. Nor is there agreement about the ultimate ontological status of phenomenal qualities, and how they are related to the entities postulated in our best current scientific explanations about the underlying structure of physical things. The project has four main objectives: To investigate a set of fundamental questions concerning phenomenal qualities and their place in the physical world; To encourage and co-ordinate research focused on the above questions by organising a series of seminars, workshops and an international conference; To stimulate dialogue between theorists of different philosophical persuasions, and with cognitive scientists working on perception and attention; To communicate to a wider non-academic audience, through public lectures and the internet.