There has been some debate concerning the kind of knowledge we have of our own actions. Most prominently, Anscombe (1957) argued that the knowledge of our actions is direct, in the sense that it is not based on observation or inference (see the entry on action).  This section provides an overview of the closely related debate on the so called “sense of agency”. It seems that when we act, we have a sense of doing something: a sense of control and of being the agent or owner of the action. The debate about this has been driven largely by empirical findings from psychology and cognitive science, and it has become common to distinguish between the following three main positions.