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The Cambridge companion to Pascal
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- Summary
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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. In this volume ...
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. In this volume a team of scholars present the full range of Pascal's achievement.
Details
- Creator
- edited by Nicholas Hammond
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, [2006]
- ©2006
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 272 pages)
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9780511998737, 0511998732, 9780521809245
- OCLC
- ocn723455018
- "Cambridge collections online."
- Title from home page (viewed Feb. 8, 2011).
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Introduction / Nicholas Hammond -- 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 / Richard Parish -- Pascal and the social world / Hélène Bouchilloux -- Pascal and philosophical method / Pierre Force -- Pascal's Pensées and the art of persuasion / The reception of Pascal's Pensées in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Antony McKenna