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The Cambridge companion to Pascal
Title:
The Cambridge companion to Pascal
Author:
Hammond, Nicholas.
Publication Information:
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2003]

©2003
Physical Description:
xvi, 287 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language:
English
Contents:
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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ISBN:
9780521809245

9780521006118
Format :
Book