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According to a widely endorsed claim, intentional action is brought about by an agent’sdesires in accordance with these desires’respective motivational strength. As Jay Wallace hasargued, though, this“hydraulic model”of the aetiology of intentional action has a seriousflaw: itfails to leave room for genuine deliberative agency. Drawing on recent developments in the debateon self-control, the article argues that Wallace’s criticism can be addressed once we combine thehydraulic model with a so-called“divided mind”account of self-control.