sourcehood

English

Etymology

From source +‎ -hood.

Noun

sourcehood (uncountable)

1. (philosophy) The quality of being the source of one's own decisions.
   • 2009 March 25, C. P. Ragland, “Free Will: Sourcehood and Its Alternatives”, in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews‎^[1]:

     On the second conception, free will consists in meeting a sourcehood condition: a free agent must be the "ultimate source of her actions" (10).

   • 2015 January 1, John Danaher, “The Free Will Debate: Sourcehood or Alternative Possibilities?”, in Philosophical Disquisitions‎^[2]:

     Pereboom’s book presents probably the best available argument for hard incompatibilism (the view that free will is not compatible with causal determinism), and his defence of the sourcehood view is just part of this overall argument.

See also

• free will