ABSTRACT
For many, the problem of the disappearing agent is probably most closely associated with the name of David Velleman. Matthew McAdam argues that Velleman accuses the standard story of suffering from the basic version of the disappearing agent worry, but of responding only to the rationalist version. McAdam accordingly distinguishes helpfully between two versions of the problem of the disappearing agent, which he calls 'the rationalist version' and the 'basic version'. It might be responded, perhaps, that endorsement models of autonomous agency are trying to capture the conditions not of agency in general, but rather of autonomous agency. The author explains some respects in which he believe a processual account of actions is better placed than one which regards actions as events to respect the central role of the agent in the phenomenon of action.
