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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Article title updated for style. | Nov 01, 2026 | ||
| Invalidated site: University of Notre Dame - Is free will possible? | Oct 28, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Open Education Alberta - A Brief Introduction to Philosophy - Existence of Free Will. | Jun 19, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: OpenStax - Introduction to Philosophy - Free Will. | May 09, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: CORE - Free Will, the Self, and the Brain (PDF). | Feb 21, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Digital Commons at Pace - Free Will Ideology: Experiments, Evolution and Virtue Ethics (PDF). | Dec 13, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology - Free Will. | Sep 05, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: BMC Medical Ethics - The notion of free will and its ethical relevance for decision-making capacity. | May 31, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC Sounds - In Our Time - Free Wil. | Jan 24, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: London School of Economics and Political Science - Free Will: The Basic. | Oct 03, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Cal Poly Pomona - Angels, Demons, and Free Will. | Aug 02, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - The notion of free will and its ethical relevance for decision-making capacity. | Jun 08, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Simply Psychology - Freewill vs Determinism in Psychology. | Apr 24, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Notre Dame - Is free will possible? | Feb 01, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Free Will. | Dec 15, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Psychology Today - Free Will. | Nov 03, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Central Florida Pressbooks - The problem of free will and determinism. | Jul 28, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Nature - Is free will an illusion? | Jun 15, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Frontiers - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience - Free Will and Neuroscience: From explaining freedom away to new ways of operationalizing and measuring it. | Mar 25, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Humanities LibreTexts - Free Will, Determinism, and Responsibility. | Feb 11, 2023 | ||
| Added mention of the related Britannica article “free will and moral responsibility.” | Aug 02, 2022 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Mar 09, 2022 | ||
| Article revised for clarity and completeness. | Mar 01, 2022 | ||
| Image of Jean-Paul Sartre added. | Nov 28, 2011 | ||
| Revised sentence asserting that free will is denied by advocates of determinism; revised sentence characterizing Sartre's claim that the individual is condemned to be free. | Nov 28, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Free Will. | Aug 04, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Free will - Compatibilism. | Aug 04, 2011 | ||
| Added birth and death years for Jean-Paul Sartre. | Jul 27, 2009 | ||
| Revised text to clarify reference to moral responsibility. | Feb 18, 2009 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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