Phenomenal intentionality and content determinacy

In his 1987 paper "Indeterminacy, Empiricism, and the First Person," John Searle argued that the first-person perspective provides the basis for securing determinacy in language and in thought, thereby fending off arguments for radical content-indeterminacy like those propounded by philosophers like Quine and Davidson. In this paper we propose a way of elaborating Searle's suggestive but cryptic remarks, within a framework that embraces the idea that the phenomenal character of experience is richly suffused with inherent, content-determinate, intentionality.