附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 264-272) and index.
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.
摘要:Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) 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.
