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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, 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
List of figures ix
Acknowledgements x
List of contributors xi
Chronology xiv
List of abbreviations xvi
Introduction 1 (3)
Nicholas Hammond
Pascal's life and times 4 (16)
Ben Rogers
Pascal's reading and the inheritance of 20 (20)
Montaigne and Descartes
Henry Phillips
Pascal's work on probability 40 (13)
A. W. F. Edwards
Pascal and decision theory 53 (22)
Jon Elster
Pascal's physics 75 (27)
Daniel C. Fouke
Pascal's philosophy of science 102(20)
Desmond M. Clarke
Pascal's theory of knowledge 122(22)
Jean Khalfa
Grace and religious belief in Pascal 144(18)
Michael Moriarty
Pascal and holy writ 162(20)
David Wetsel
Pascal's Lettres provinciales: from 182(19)
flippancy to fundamentals
Richard Parish
Pascal and the social world 201(15)
Helene Bouchilloux
Pascal and philosophical method 216(19)
Pierre Force
Pascal's Pensees and the art of persuasion 235(18)
Nicholas Hammond
The reception of Pascal's Pensees in the 253(11)
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Antony McKenna
Bibliography 264(9)
Index 273
