sourcehood

The quality of being the source of one's own decisions.

Noun

  1. The quality of being the source of one's own decisions.
    • On the second conception, free will consists in meeting a sourcehood condition: a free agent must be the "ultimate source of her actions" (10). - 2009 March 25, C. P. Ragland, “Free Will: Sourcehood and Its...
    • 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...

Origin

From source + -hood.

Related

free will