Hajek, AlanZalta, Edward N.2023-05-011095-5054http://hdl.handle.net/1885/289782“Pascal’s Wager” is the name given to an argument due to Blaise Pascal for believing, or for at least taking steps to believe, in God. The name is somewhat misleading, for in a single section of his Pensées, Pascal apparently presents four such arguments, each of which might be called a ‘wager’—it is only the third of these that is traditionally referred to as “Pascal’s Wager”. We find in it the extraordinary confluence of several important strands of thought: the justification of theism; probability theory and decision theory, used here for almost the first time in history; pragmatism; voluntarism (the thesis that belief is a matter of the will); and the use of the concept of infinity.application/pdfen-AUcopyright © 2022 by The Metaphysics Research Lab; Copyright © 2022 by Alan Hájek20222022-12-18