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The presentation aims to focus on the Dreyfus-McDowell Debate and Classic Phenomenology. The talk will move from John McDowell’s claim that concepts already permeate our perceptions. In particular, McDowell and Dreyfus’ exchange has neatly highlighted one of the core questions of our comprehension of concepts debating over the problematic relationship between the two spheres of mind and perception. An increasingly wider debate is raised discussing whether and to what extent concepts actually interlace the sensuous extra-intellectual bodily dimension of our experience or whether, on the contrary, our perception experience is a non-mental, non- linguistic, embodied and practical dimension, in which conceptual rationality is not in play. Accordingly, the debate is framed into the contrast between conceptualism and non-conceptualism. Nowadays, the debate has reached a stalemate.