Objecting Vaguely to Pascal's Wager.
This article presents an objection to Blaise Pascal's Wager. Arguments in the philosophy of religion do not get much more interesting than Pascal's Wager. There is its interest to historians of probability as essentially the first instance of explicitly decision theoretic reasoning in print, its int...
| Publicado en: | Philosophical Studies Vol. 98; no. 1; pp. 1 - 15 |
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