long FEMINISM IN PHILOSOPHY Edited by miranda fricker and jennifer hornsby FOUCAULT Edited by gary gutting FREUD Edited by jerome neu GALILEO Edited by peter machamer GERMAN IDEALISM Edited by karl ameriks GADAMER Edited by robert j. Other volumes in the series of cambridge companions AQUINAS Edited by norman kretzmann and eleonore stump HANNAH ARENDT Edited by dana villa ARISTOTLE Edited by jonathan barnes AUGUSTINE Edited by eleonore stump and norman kretzmann BACON Edited by markku peltonen SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR Edited by claudia card DARWIN Edited by jonathan hodge and gregory radick DESCARTES Edited by john cottingham DUNS SCOTUS Edited by thomas williams EARLY GREEK PHILOSOPHY Edited by a. n i c h o l a s h a m m o n d is Senior Lecturer in the Department of French, Cambridge University, and Director of Studies in Modern Languages at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Advanced students and specialists will find a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of Pascal. New readers and non-specialists will find this the most convenient and accessible guide to Pascal currently available. In addition to chapters on Pascal’s life and intellectual legacy, topics include his work on probability, decision theory, physics, philosophy of science, theory of knowledge, philosophical method, polemics, biblical interpretation, grace and religious belief, the social world, and the art of persuasion. 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. Blaise Pascal (1623–62) occupies a position of pivotal importance in many domains: philosophy, mathematics, physics, religious polemics and apologetics. One aim of the series is to dispel the intimidation such readers often feel when faced with the work of a difficult and challenging thinker. PASCAL Each volume in this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and non-specialists.
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