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HoP 483 Between Infinity and the Void: Blaise Pascal

28/12/2025

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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Blaise Pascal was a pioneering scientist and deeply spiritual religious thinker; what united these two sides of his thought?

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HoP 483 Between Infinity and the Void: Blaise Pascal

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

D'autres épisodes de "History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps"

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

HoP 475 Ariane Schneck on Elisabeth and Descartes

HoP 474 States of the Union: Descartes on the Passions