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HoP 485 Liz Jackson on Pascal's Wager

25/1/2026

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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38:41

An interview on contemporary approaches to Pascal's Wager: where decision theory meets philosophy of religion.

Otros episodios de "History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps"

HoP 485 Liz Jackson on Pascal's Wager
25/1/2026
38:41
An interview on contemporary approaches to Pascal's Wager: where decision theory meets philosophy of religion.
HoP 484 You Bet Your Life: Pascal’s Wager
11/1/2026
22:41
Should we gamble on belief in God to have a chance at infinite reward?
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HoP 483 Between Infinity and the Void: Blaise Pascal
28/12/2025
20:13
Blaise Pascal was a pioneering scientist and deeply spiritual religious thinker; what united these two sides of his thought?
HoP 482 Indivisible, Under God: the Revival of Atomism
14/12/2025
20:04
Why did Sébastian Basso and Pierre Gassendi think ancient atomism was the key to developing a new, modern science?
HoP 481 True Fool’s Gold: Pierre Gassendi
30/11/2025
20:19
Gassendi’s path from skepticism to “baptized Epicureanism.”
HoP 480 Honorable Ignorance: French Skepticism
16/11/2025
21:30
So-called “libertines” like Mothe le Vayer revive ancient skepticism, provoking a backlash from Mersenne and Arnauld. Were they right to see the skeptics as anti-religious?
HoP 479 Gideon Manning on Cartesian Medicine
2/11/2025
33:57
An interview exploring Descartes' interest in medicine, how his medical ideas relate to his dualism, and his influence on medical science.
HoP 478 This Gland Is Your Gland: Cartesian Science
19/10/2025
24:16
From comets to blood transfusions, embryology, and the debate over the pineal gland: Descartes’ impact on science, especially medicine.
HoP 477 The Mind Has No Sex: Cartesianism and Gender
5/10/2025
20:44
Why Cartesianism appealed to women and became the inspiration for a pioneering feminist, Poullain de la Barre; and why Cartesianism was not the only option for women philosophers of the age.
HoP 476 What He Should Have Said: the Early Cartesians
21/9/2025
26:07
Early Cartesians including Cordemoy and de La Forge develop but also challenge Descartes’ ideas, defending atomism and occasionalism.

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HoP 485 Liz Jackson on Pascal's Wager

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

Otros episodios de "History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps"

HoP 485 Liz Jackson on Pascal's Wager

HoP 484 You Bet Your Life: Pascal’s Wager

HoP 483 Between Infinity and the Void: Blaise Pascal

HoP 482 Indivisible, Under God: the Revival of Atomism

HoP 481 True Fool’s Gold: Pierre Gassendi

HoP 480 Honorable Ignorance: French Skepticism

HoP 479 Gideon Manning on Cartesian Medicine

HoP 478 This Gland Is Your Gland: Cartesian Science

HoP 477 The Mind Has No Sex: Cartesianism and Gender

HoP 476 What He Should Have Said: the Early Cartesians