Definition of "free-will" []

• Of or pertaining to free will; voluntary; spontaneous. (adjective)

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• "'As for _free-will_, we comprehend a certain kind of free-will in the more intelligent animals; and, on the other hand, we may add, that perhaps man is not so free as he would fain persuade himself he is.'"
• "Another good paper on criminal responsibility, this time from a libertarian perspective, is Kinsella and Tinsley's Causation and Aggression, though it seems to assume free-will (or "agent-causation") and reject mechanistic explanations."
• "I share Caplan's rather Szaszian tendencies, but I also found Greene & Cohen's For the law, neuroscience changes nothing and everything (which argues against non-political "libertarian free-will" and toward determinism or at least compatibilism) rather persuasive."