The Cambridge Companion to Pascal
The Cambridge Companion to Pascal
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.
- The most comprehensive and accessible guide to Pascal currently available
- It will appeal to specialists and non specialists alike
- Nicholas Hammond is well regarded in the field of Pascal studies
Reviews & endorsements
"...an indispensable handbook of English-language Pascal scholarship." Philosophy in Review
"All in all, this is a top notch collection, which deserves, and receives, an unqualified recommendation." - Jeff Jordan, The University of Delaware
Product details
June 2003Paperback
9780521006118
304 pages
228 × 153 × 18 mm
0.428kg
5 b/w illus.
Available
Table of Contents
- 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.
