ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that there is a close connection between agency and mistakes. To make this connection precise, I discuss the category of performance mistakes. In so far as these mistakes cannot be traced to errors or problematic features in the attitudes behind our actions, they recommend a kind of fallibilism about our agency. According to the latter, our fallibility is built into our capacities for translating thought into action and, hence, cannot be fully explained in terms of other shortcomings in our rational lives.
