| Description |
xvi, 287 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Cambridge companions to philosophy |
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Cambridge companions to philosophy.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 264-272) and index. |
| Contents |
Pascal's life and times / Ben Rogers -- Pascal's reading and the inheritance of Montaigne and Descartes / Henry Phillips -- Pascal's work on probability / A.W.F. Edwards -- Pascal and decision theory / Jon Elster -- Pascal's physics / Daniel C. Fouke -- Pascal's philosophy of science / Desmond M. Clarke -- Pascal's theory of knowledge / Jean Khalfa -- Grace and religious belief in Pascal / Michael Moriarty -- Pascal and holy writ / David Wetsel -- Pascal's Lettres provinciales : from flippancy to fundamentals / Richard Parish -- Pascal and the social world / Hélène Bouchilloux -- Pascal and philosophical method / Pierre Force -- Pascal's Pensées and the art of persuasion / Nicholas Hammond -- The reception of Pascal's Pensées in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Antony McKenna. |
| Subject |
Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662.
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| Added Author |
Hammond, Nicholas, 1963-
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| Added Title |
Pascal |
| ISBN |
052180924X |
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9780521809245 |
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0521006112 paperback |
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9780521006118 paperback |
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