happens with the permission of God. Others The philosopher Søren Kierkegaard claimed that divine omnipotence cannot be separated from divine goodness. As a truly omnipotent and good being, God could create beings with true freedom over God. Furthermore, God would voluntarily do so because "the greatest good… which can be done for a being, greater than anything else that one can do for it, is to be truly free." Alvin Plantinga's free-will defense is a contemporary expansion of this theme, adding how God, free will, and evil are consistent. Some philosophers follow William of Ockham in holding that necessity and possibility are defined with respect to a given point in time and a given matrix of empirical circumstances, and so something that is merely possible from the perspective of one observer may be necessary from the perspective of an omniscient. Some philosophers follow Philo of Alexandria, a philosopher known for his homocentrism, in holding that free will is a feature of a human's soul, and thus that non-human animals lack free will. See also Agency in Mormonism Angst#Existentialist angst Argument from free will Buridan's ass De libero arbitrio – early treatise about the freedom of will by Augustine of Hippo Free will theorem Locus of control Karma Prevenient grace Problem of mental causation Prospection Superdeterminism True Will Voluntarism (philosophy) References Citations Bibliography Hawking, Stephen, and Mlodinow, Leonard, The Grand Design, New York, Bantam Books, 2010. Horst, Steven (2011), Laws, Mind, and Free Will. (MIT Press) Sri Aurobindo about freedom and free will(PDF) Further reading Dennett, Daniel C. (2003). Freedom Evolves. New York: Viking Press Epstein J.M. (1999). Agent Based Models and Generative Social Science. Complexity, IV (5). Gazzaniga, M. & Steven, M.S. (2004) Free Will in the 21st Century: A Discussion of Neuroscience and Law, in Garland, B. (ed.) Neuroscience and the Law: Brain, Mind and the Scales of Justice, New York: Dana Press, , pp. 51–70. Harnad, Stevan (2009) The Explanatory Gap #PhilPapers Harris, Sam. 2012. Free Will. Free Press. Hofstadter, Douglas. (2007) I Am A Strange Loop. Basic Books. Kane, Robert (1998). The Significance of Free Will. New York: Oxford University Press Lawhead, William F. (2005). The Philosophical Journey: An Interactive Approach. McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages . Libet, Benjamin; Anthony Freeman; and Keith Sutherland, eds. (1999). The Volitional Brain: Towards a Neuroscience of Free Will. Exeter, UK: Imprint Academic. Collected essays by scientists and philosophers. Muhm, Myriam (2004). Abolito