# MENTAL AGENCY **Opening (not a real abstract):** Philosophical discussions of action typically focus on the agency we exercise by moving our bodies. However, a significant amount of our agential behaviour appears not to fit straightforwardly into that category. For instance, we can choose what to consider, what to imagine, and we can exercise agency over the direction taken by our thinking when we deliberate about what to do or when we try to work out some puzzle. Such examples indicate that some of the events that constitute our conscious mental lives can amount to mental behaviour over which we exercise agency, which we can exercise without moving our bodies. Hence, it might be said that we don’t just have a capacity for bodily agency but also for mental agency. One response to that way of categorising our agential capacities is to say that while it isn’t **Authors:** [[Matthew Soteriou]]