How does Occam’s Razor relate to free will?

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Vladimir Mokiy

Occam's razor is related to free will in the same way that Truth is related to Reality (the “how it should be” is related to the “how it is”).

Karl Pfeifer

If a theory is committed to both universal causal determinism and incompatibilism, it appears that free will could no longer serve a theoretical role and would be an otiose assumption.

I recommend Martin Gerwin's book, Causes, Agents, Explanations, and Free Will, in which he develops a variant of incompatibilism ("soft incompatibilism") that accommodates free will to a limited extent. The ebook costs less than a cup of Starbuck's coffee:

https://martingerwin.com/new-book-1