Nicholas Hammond (ed.)

The Cambridge Companion to Pascal

Herausgeber: Hammond, Nicholas

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) occupies a position of pivotal importance in many domains: philosophy, mathematics, physics, religious polemics and apologetics. A team of leading scholars surveys the range of his achievement and intellectual background as well as the reception of his work. New readers and nonspecialists will find a convenient and accessible guide to Pascal and advanced students and specialists, a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of his works.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 443g
• ISBN-13: 9780521006118
• ISBN-10: 0521006112
• Artikelnr.: 22419182

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Pascal's life and times Ben Rogers
2. Pascal's reading and the inheritance of Montaigne and Descartes Henry Phillips
3. Pascal's work on probability A. W. F. Edwards
4. Pascal and decision theory Jon Elster
5. Pascal's Physics Daniel Fouke
6. Pascal's Philosophy of Science Desmond M. Clarke
7. Pascal's theory of knowledge Jean Khalfa
8. Grace and religious belief in Pascal Michael Moriarty
9. Pascal and Holy Writ David Wetsel
10. Pascal's Lettres provinciales: from flippancy to fundamentals Richard Parish
11. Pascal and the social world Hélène Bouchilloux
12. Pascal and philosophical method Pierre Force
13. Pascal's Pensées and the art of persuasion Nicholas Hammond
14. The reception of Pascal's Pensées in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Antony McKenna.