ABSTRACT
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How can we explain the phenomenology of a conscious thought? There seem to be two options: (a) it has \;propritary non-perceptual phenomenology and (b) its phenomenology can be explained in terms of perceptual phenomenology. The aim of this paper is to offer a third option in the cognitive phenomenology debate\, which has not been explored: metacogntiive feelings. Metacognitive \;feelings are about (perceptual or nonperceptual) mental states \;but they are based on the vehicle and not the content properties of the first order mental state \;(e.g.\, the ease \;of processing). So a new way of thinking about the phenomenology of conscious thoughts would be that it derives from the metacognitive feelings that is about these thoughts - and this will be a kind of phenomenology that is neither perceptual nor cognitive.