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It would not be unreasonable to expect that a handbook in the Philosophy of Agency would open with a chapter titled ‘What is agency?’ or more positively ‘The nature of agency,’ espe-cially if the first part of the book is devoted to nothing less than the metaphysics of agency. Alas, you won’t find this chapter here. As I explained in the general introduction, al-though I think we have a fairly good intuitive grasp of what the core instances of full-blooded agency look like, it is far from clear whether we could offer some uncontroversial and straightforward statement about what the concept of ‘agency’ stands for. Our best bet, as I suggested in the introduction, is to try to unpack and explore various more specific issues, attacking the question from different angles, in the hope of eventually gaining a better ar-ticulation and understanding of agency.