Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 Pascal’s life and times
- 2 Pascal’s reading and the inheritance of Montaigne and Descartes
- 3 Pascal’s work on probability
- 4 Pascal and decision theory
- 5 Pascal’s physics
- 6 Pascal’s philosophy of science
- 7 Pascal’s theory of knowledge
- 8 Grace and religious belief in Pascal
- 9 Pascal and holy writ
- 10 Pascal’s Lettres provinciales
- 11 Pascal and the social world
- 12 Pascal and philosophical method
- 13 Pascal’s Pensées and the art of persuasion
- 14 The reception of Pascal’s Pensées in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
- Bibliography
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 May 2006
Edited by
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 Pascal’s life and times
- 2 Pascal’s reading and the inheritance of Montaigne and Descartes
- 3 Pascal’s work on probability
- 4 Pascal and decision theory
- 5 Pascal’s physics
- 6 Pascal’s philosophy of science
- 7 Pascal’s theory of knowledge
- 8 Grace and religious belief in Pascal
- 9 Pascal and holy writ
- 10 Pascal’s Lettres provinciales
- 11 Pascal and the social world
- 12 Pascal and philosophical method
- 13 Pascal’s Pensées and the art of persuasion
- 14 The reception of Pascal’s Pensées in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Cambridge Companion to Pascal , pp. 273 - 287Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003