Crucial experiments and proofs by the absurd

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Speaker(s)

Sophie Roux

Professor at the École normale supérieure (ENS- PSL)

Events

The Pascalian wager : from rationality in a situation of uncertainty to voluntarist irrationali…

Pascal's trembling hope

Abandonment, hardening, blindness : what kind of God is Pascal's ?

" So corrupt or ignorant is the Inquisition " : Pascal and Roman censorship

The hatred of truth in Pascal's analysis of the relationship between understanding and will

" This mute conglomerate we call nature " (P. Descola).…

Creatures without a hymn : Pascal's cirons, flies and ants

Pascal, Descartes and the " romans " of thought

Crucial experiments and proofs by the absurd

Speaker(s)

Sophie Roux

Events

Pascal at the philosophers' 2023

Pascal : no story

The faith

" Ny substance, ny accident " : the ontological status of space and emptiness

Crucial experiments and proofs by the absurd

Rationality and hope

Language games in some Pascalian reasoning

The Pascalian wager : from rationality in a situation of uncertainty to voluntarist irrationali…

Pascal's trembling hope

Abandonment, hardening, blindness : what kind of God is Pascal's ?

" So corrupt or ignorant is the Inquisition " : Pascal and Roman censorship

The hatred of truth in Pascal's analysis of the relationship between understanding and will

" This mute conglomerate we call nature " (P. Descola).…

Creatures without a hymn : Pascal's cirons, flies and ants

Pascal, Descartes and the " romans " of thought

Pascal, the challenge of honesty

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