What the assumption of free will amounts to is a full renounce to any attempt to explain purposeful behavior as an effect of some material cause whatsoever. It is not a recognition, neither explicit nor implicit, that free will is un-caused. As long as a research program, for instance that of psychology, successfully bursts into the causes of purposeful behavior, it reveals free will as not really being such, it shatters it; not to speak of, say, the physiological study of the brain. Of course, these research programs are so humble that we will always have room for free will.
On the one side free will, i. e. purpose, can be interpreted as random and so, analyzed (in some, but clearly not the causal, aspects) through the methods of statistic inference. On the other side, it can be viewed as a spontaneous (this is, undesigned) order.
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