Term

determinism

The doctrine that everything that happens is predetermined by preceding causes, so that it could not have happened otherwise.

Explained in

The Will to Believe, William James
Death and Its Mystery: Before Death, Camille Flammarion
The view that every event has its causes. In Flammarion’s reading, a person’s decisions are also among these causes.
Zero to One, Peter Thiel
the belief that the future can and should be planned in advance, rather than simply waited out to see what happens