UID:
edocfu_9959695951702883
Format:
1 online resource (xvi, 287 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-139-81668-3
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0-511-99873-2
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1-280-43380-9
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0-511-17886-7
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0-511-07804-8
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0-511-20294-6
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0-511-30601-6
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0-511-07647-9
Series Statement:
Cambridge companions to philosophy
Content:
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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).
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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.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-00611-2
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-80924-X
Language:
English
