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Salvaging Pascal's Wager

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dc.contributor.authorJackson, Elizabeth
dc.contributor.authorRogers, Andrew
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-05T04:45:15Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.date.updated2022-09-18T08:17:26Z
dc.description.abstractMany think that Pascal's Wager is a hopeless failure. A primary reason for this is because a number of challenging objections have been raised to the wager, including the "many-gods" objection and the "mixed strategy" objection. We argue that both objections are formal, but not substantive, problems for the wager, and that they both fail for the same reason. We then respond to additional objections to the wager. We show how a version of Pascalian reasoning succeeds, giving us a reason to pay special attention to the infinite consequences of our actions.en_AU
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.issn1529-1634en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/311196
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherEvangelical Philosophical Societyen_AU
dc.rights© 2019 Evangelical Philosophical Societyen_AU
dc.sourcePhilosophia Christien_AU
dc.titleSalvaging Pascal's Wageren_AU
dc.typeJournal articleen_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.issue1en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage84en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage59en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationJackson, Elizabeth, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationRogers, Andrew, New York Universityen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidJackson, Elizabeth, u4001727en_AU
local.description.embargo2099-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIESen_AU
local.identifier.absfor500308 - Logicen_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationa383154xPUB27918en_AU
local.identifier.citationvolume21en_AU
local.identifier.doi10.5840/pc201921110en_AU
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-85078549855
local.publisher.urlhttps://www.pdcnet.org/en_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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