# The Sense of Agency and the Epistemology of Thinking **Abstract:** This paper motivates a constraint on how to explain the “sense of agency” for conscious thinking. It argues that a prominent model fails to satisfy the constraint before sketching an alternative that does. On the alternative, punctate acts of conscious thinking, such as episodes of inner speech, are recognizable as our deeds because they are recognizable as parts of complex cognitive activities, which we know nonobservationally in virtue of holding intentions to perform them. **Authors:** [[Casey Doyle]]