ABSTRACT
We experience volitional conflicts when we take ourselves to be subject to competing requirements. Such conflicts are possible because our substantive commitments are partly independent of our disposition to respond to reasons. I argue that we cannot experience volitional conflict in any other form. But I caution against concluding that there is no other possible form of synchronic incoherence. We are, I point out, capable of dissociating our agency from our reason. Given this capacity, the important challenge we face as agents is not the challenge of maintaining volitional coherence. It is, rather, the challenge of providing our will with an appropriate grounding without unduly interfering with our capacity to will.
