Gambling on God: Essays on Pascal's WagerJeff Jordan Rowman & Littlefield, 1994 - Всего страниц: 168 Gambling on God brings together a superb collection of new and classic essays that provide the first sustained analysis of Pascal's Wager and the idea of an infinite utility as well as the first in-depth look at moral objections to the Wager. |
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... evidential reasons for doing so or even in the presence of good evidential reasons to the contrary . But context makes it clear that this is not Pascal's idea . His diagnosis of the problem faced by the interlocutor who cannot believe ...
... evidential reasons for doing so or even in the presence of good evidential reasons to the contrary . But context makes it clear that this is not Pascal's idea . His diagnosis of the problem faced by the interlocutor who cannot believe ...
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... evidence , theism is at least as probable as its negation . On that assumption , evidential reasons alone render belief in God rationally permissible . Let us also suppose that evidential reasons by themselves are not strong enough to ...
... evidence , theism is at least as probable as its negation . On that assumption , evidential reasons alone render belief in God rationally permissible . Let us also suppose that evidential reasons by themselves are not strong enough to ...
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... evidence is sufficiently low , evidential reasons alone render unbelief rationally obligatory . Yet even in this case the wager argument furnishes a strong prudential reason for betting on theism , because one's bet yields an infinite ...
... evidence is sufficiently low , evidential reasons alone render unbelief rationally obligatory . Yet even in this case the wager argument furnishes a strong prudential reason for betting on theism , because one's bet yields an infinite ...
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Introduction | 1 |
The Wager in Pascal and Others | 11 |
The Logic Of Pascals Wager | 21 |
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