 In the context of a view of this kind, an appeal to causation by agents that is ontologically fundamental is no claim of metaphysical exceptionalism. Further, on a causal pluralist view, an agent-causal theorist can help herself to an understanding of acting for a reason in terms of causation by one’s recognition of reasons. For it may be said that a free action is caused by the agent and caused by certain states of the agent, with causation by each of these things interdependent and equally fundamental. The verdict on such a view hinges on the tenability of its general account of causation.