ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the interplay between attention and consciousness in agency with specific focus on visually guided action and visual attention. I identify a basic structure of action and locate attention within that structure. I then survey some recent empirical work that suggests that attention limits phenomenal consciousness and that some forms of attention in action can be unconscious. Against the standard view, I argue that there is no evidence that attention limits phenomenal consciousness and dispute the evidence in favour of zombie action, namely action guided by unconscious visual states. This suggests that a common sense view of the role of attention and perception in action is tenable: visual attention provides an anchor for visual experience in action but without limiting experience to what one attends.
