Abstract In this note, I argue that knowledge of an action’s effect undermines agent’s reason to act. This undermining occurs in some cases bringing about the past, but also forwards causation. consider suggestion it is not truth reasons act, giving rise spectre fatalism. Thankfully, can be banished.

There seems to be a minimal core that every theory wishing to accommodate the intuition that the future is open must contain: a denial of physical determinism (i.e. the thesis that what future states the universe will be in is implied by what states it has been in), and a denial of strong fatalism (i.e. the thesis that, at every time, what will subsequently be the case is metaphysically necessa...

An interview study of 44 Bangladeshi patients and relatives in eastern London demonstrated frequent appeals to God and deprecation of personal agency. This paper offers an interpretation of this apparent 'fatalism', which argues for the logical downplaying of human agency and ambition in archaic Arabia, contemporary rural Sylhet and among first generation Sylheti migrants in London.

and demolition were imprinted by discourses of masculinity, the analysis is also somewhat uncomfortable. To identify the gendered elements of prison officer culture, management styles and of violent transgression is certainly important, but the sections in which Carrabine does so feel a little ‘tacked-on’. The book is also somewhat concept-heavy. It is always refreshing to see a criminologist d...

In this study we explore and document perceptions of slum dwellers about causes of poverty and petty corruption in slum areas of Karachi (Pakistan). Moreover, we examine the effects of fatalism on poverty, large family size, and child labor. We conduct a survey by interviewing 100 respondents covering all districts (Central, West, East, Malir, and South) to document slum dwellers’ perceptions. ...