Further, the disappearing agent objection is not always put forward as a general objection to the event-causal framework. As we have seen (section 2.3), Velleman (1992) argued that the standard theory leaves out the agent, or the agent’s participation, and he proposed a solution to this problem within the event-causal framework. In his reply, Mele (2003: Ch. 10) suggested that it would be more appropriate to call this the problem of the “shrinking agent”. According to Velleman, the standard theory captures only deficient instances of agency, in which the agent’s participation is “unwitting” or “halfhearted”. Instances of deficient agency can be explained in terms of various capacities or properties that the agent does not possess, exercise, or instantiate; capacities and properties such as conscious awareness, reflective awareness, reason-responsiveness, self-control, self-governance, and so on. Given this, there is no need to conceptualize instances of deficient agency in terms of the agent’s absence. Further, doing so creates a rather implausible dichotomy between a kind of agency in which the agent does participate and a kind of agency in which the agent does not participate (Schlosser 2010).