Jenann T. Ismael is a professor of philosophy at Johns Hopkins University[1][2] and a member of the Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi.
[4] Ismael has published four books: Essays on Symmetry in 2001, The Situated Self in 2007 (with a second edition released in 2009,), How Physics Makes Us Free in 2016 and Time: A Very Short Introduction in 2021 as well as a number of peer-reviewed papers.
[7] In this paper,[8] Ismael addresses the question of free will from a physics perspective, reconciling the "happy confidence in one's own powers to bring things about" and "recent developments in the scientific understanding of causal concepts."
From the broad scientific perspective, dynamical laws seem to preclude not only most folk notions of free will, but the very concept of causality in general.
However "interventionist account" of causality, independently developed by Clark Glymour and Judea Pearl, makes sense of considering the impacts of our human behavior on the system.