The Cambridge companion to Pascal
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The Cambridge companion to Pascal
(Cambridge companions)
Cambridge University Press, 2003
- : hard
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. 264-272
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and nonspecialists. One aim of the series is to dispel the intimidation such readers often feel when faced with the work of a difficult and challenging thinker. Blaise Pascal (1623-62) occupies a position of pivotal importance in many domains: philosophy, mathematics, physics, religious polemics and apologetics. In this volume a team of leading scholars presents the full range of Pascal's achievement and surveys the intellectual background of his thought and the reception of his work. New readers and nonspecialists will find this the most convenient and accessible guide to Pascal currently available. Advanced students and specialists will find a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of Pascal.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Pascal's life and times Ben Rogers
- 2. Pascal's reading and the inheritance of Montaigne and Descartes Henry Phillips
- 3. Pascal's work on probability A. W. F. Edwards
- 4. Pascal and decision theory Jon Elster
- 5. Pascal's Physics Daniel Fouke
- 6. Pascal's Philosophy of Science Desmond M. Clarke
- 7. Pascal's theory of knowledge Jean Khalfa
- 8. Grace and religious belief in Pascal Michael Moriarty
- 9. Pascal and Holy Writ David Wetsel
- 10. Pascal's Lettres provinciales: from flippancy to fundamentals Richard Parish
- 11. Pascal and the social world Helene Bouchilloux
- 12. Pascal and philosophical method Pierre Force
- 13. Pascal's Pensees and the art of persuasion Nicholas Hammond
- 14. The reception of Pascal's Pensees in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Antony McKenna.
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