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Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) occupies a position of pivotal importance in many domains: philosophy, mathematics, physics, religious polemics and apologetics. A team of leading scholars surveys the range of his achievement and intellectual background as well as the reception of his work. New readers and nonspecialists will find a convenient and accessible guide to Pascal and advanced students and specialists, a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of his works.
Review:
"...an indispensable handbook of English-language Pascal scholarship." Philosophy in Review
Synopsis:
A convenient and accessible guide to Blaise Pascal presenting the full range of his achievement.
About the Author
Nicholas Hammond is Senior Lecturer at the Department of French, Cambridge University and Director of Studies in Modern Languages at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
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 Hlne Bouchilloux; 12. Pascal and philosophical method Pierre Force; 13. Pascal"s Penses and the art of persuasion Nicholas Hammond; 14. The reception of Pascal"s Penses in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Antony McKenna.
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