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HoP 484 You Bet Your Life: Pascal’s Wager

11/01/2026

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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Should we gamble on belief in God to have a chance at infinite reward?

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HoP 480 Honorable Ignorance: French Skepticism
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HoP 479 Gideon Manning on Cartesian Medicine
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HoP 476 What He Should Have Said: the Early Cartesians
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Early Cartesians including Cordemoy and de La Forge develop but also challenge Descartes’ ideas, defending atomism and occasionalism.
HoP 475 Ariane Schneck on Elisabeth and Descartes
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HoP 484 You Bet Your Life: Pascal’s Wager

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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

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

HoP 475 Ariane Schneck on Elisabeth and Descartes