 The most sophisticated such proposal is that advanced by Timothy O’Connor (2000b: ch. 5). At the core of the proposal is an account of the reason-explanation of free decisions. As O’Connor sees it, agents do not cause free decisions; rather, a free decision is a causally complex event, consisting of the agent’s causing her coming to have a certain intention. (Such a causally complex event is, in turn, a component of any free overt action, such as one’s freely raising one’s arm.) Suppose, then, that someone freely decides to A right now. The decision can be explained by citing an antecedent desire, O’Connor maintains, if