# movements of the mind chapter 1 **Opening (not a real abstract):** The Structure of Acting 1.1 Introduction An agent’s acting intentionally has a psychological structure: an agent responds guided by how she takes things given her intending to act. In this book, an agent’s acting intentionally means an agent’s doing things with an intention. Although I focus on intentional mental agency, my theory applies to all actions: intentional action writ large, unintentional and automatic actions, actions done from emotions, implicitly biased actions, pathologies of agency, passivity behavior, and so on. Acting with an intention has a psychological structure: An agent’s acting intentionally is the agent’s responding in a specific way, guided by how she takes things, given her intending to act. Given her intending to act on a drink, the agent’s visually taking in the glass guides