# The phenomenology of first-person agency **Keywords:** Agency, Intention, Sense of Agency, Anscombe, Intentional Binding, Control. **Abstract:** Many philosophers and cognitive scientists hold that judgments of agency are grounded in the so-called sense of agency, which is construed as a phenomenological given, part of the fabric of experience. This paper rejects the view that the sense of agency is an irreducible component of personal-level phenomenology. Instead, it argues that the sense of agency can be understood in terms of more fundamental aspects of the phenomenology of action. The paper evaluates different proposals for a deflationary account of the awareness of agency in the light of significant findings in the experimental study of action awareness. **Authors:** [[bermudez]]