 Velleman has an answer waiting in the wings, however. (Bear in mind that here we are connecting a few of the dots in a way that hasn’t been spelled out before.) Velleman, like other theorists we have surveyed, has a finish line in moral theory, a position he calls ‘kinda Kantian’: because our lives are pervaded by the motivation to understand ourselves, over time that motivation, even if it is not very strong, is likely to have deep effects; specifically, by way of making ourselves easier to understand, we will simplify our typology of persons, removing asymmetries in the social roles that we occupy, and gradually come to be agents for whom Kantian moral theory is a pretty decent fit. That treatment can serve as a model for understanding the psychological processes to which Velleman appeals, and render the circularities we were floating no longer vicious: perhaps we have gradually come to be agents of whom belief-desire psychology is true, and in whom one particular emotion naturally follows on another, because conforming to these simple-minded theories simplified our personal and social lives, making it easier for us to understand ourselves. In that case, the causal factors these views invoke are now elements of straightforwardly causal explanations; it no longer matters how they got that way. 