@article {Ford:2008:1355-8250:59, author = "Ford, Jason", title = "Attention and the New Sceptics", journal = "Journal of Consciousness Studies", volume = "15", year = "2008", abstract = "In response to new research into the phenomena of inattentional blindness and change- blindness, several philosophers and vision researchers have proposed a novel form of scepticism: they contend that we do not have the conscious experience that we think we have. I will show that this claim is not supported by the evidence usually cited in support of it, and I expose what I believe to be the underlying error motivating this position: the belief that consciousness is either focal (what occupies the focus of attention) or non- existent. Once we appreciate the phenomenology of the periphery of attention, we see that we have the resources to place the problematic phenomena in our peripheral", pages = "59-86(28)", url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/imp/jcs/2008/00000015/00000003/art00003" }