This articles examines several efforts of scientific theorists to reconcile the concept of free will with a lawful universe and with the scientific tasks of prediction and control. Next, the author reviews some of the empirical research relating to free will. Finally, implications of these theories and data for the status of free will and related concepts as scientific constructs are discussed.
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A. A. Sappington (1990) studied this question.
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