TY - BOOK AU - Hammond,Nicholas TI - The Cambridge companion to Pascal SN - 0521006112 (pbk.) U1 - 194 PY - 2003/// CY - Cambridge, UK, New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Pascal, Blaise, N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 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 ER -