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.
Search in google:
A convenient and accessible guide to Blaise Pascal presenting the full range of his achievement.
Introduction1Pascal's life and times2Pascal's reading and the inheritance of Montaigne and Descartes3Pascal's work on probability4Pascal and decision theory5Pascal's Physics6Pascal's Philosophy of Science7Pascal's theory of knowledge8Grace and religious belief in Pascal9Pascal and Holy Writ10Pascal's Letters provinciales: from flippancy to fundamentals11Pascal and the social world12Pascal and philosophical method13Pascal's Pensees and the art of persuasion14The reception of Pascal's Pensees in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
