DON'T LOOK BACK IN ANGER. FREEDOM, FATALISM AND THE FUTURE.

This dissertation is a defence of what I labeled reasonable fatalism. According to this view, even though people never have the power to do otherwise than what they actually do, and are thus unfree in this sense, we can make sense of deliberation, moral responsibility, and agency. In the first chapter, I gave an overview of the literature regarding fatalism. In the second one, I gave my own original argument in favor of reasonable fatalism. In the third one, I showed how reasonable fatalism can solve some puzzles which arose in the debate on time travel and free will. In the fourth one, I discussed and criticized a recent paper according to which the past may change by means of an episode of time travel. In the last one, I discussed and provided an argument in favor of mutable futurism, i.e. the idea that the future might literally change.