 Accounts of active control often appeal to causation. Exercising such control when one acts, it is said, consists in causing some event (the action, or an event internal to that action). It is often further held that causation by an agent consists entirely in causation by mental events or states of certain kinds, such as the agent’s desiring, believing, or intending something in particular. Of course, noncausal theories reject any such view, but what alternative have they to offer us?