Citations:Pascal's wager

English citations of Pascal's wager

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• 1896, William James, The Will to Believe: and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, Longmans, Green, and Co., →OL, page 5:

  In Pascal's Thoughts there is a celebrated passage known in the literature as Pascal's wager.

• 1903 July, W. R. Sorley, “Betting and Gambling”, in International Journal of Ethics, volume 13, number 4, →JSTOR, page 426:

  Pascal's wager was a wager with or on the universe.

• 1905 April, Alfred W. Benn, “Pascal's Wager”, in International Journal of Ethics, volume 15, number 3, →JSTOR, page 305:

  What the French call "le pari de Pascal"—in English Pascal's wager or bet—forms the theme of one of the most celebrated passages in his fragmentary defence of Christianity, published after his death and universally known as the "Pensées."

• 1964 July, Terence Penelhum, “Pascal's Wager”, in The Journal of Religion, volume 44, number 3, →JSTOR, page 201:

  The argument known as Pascal's Wager is very famous, and very embarrassing.

• 1972 April, Ian Hacking, “The Logic of Pascal's Wager”, in American Philosophical Quarterly, volume 9, number 2, →JSTOR, page 186:

  Pascal's Wager is the name of some game-theoretic considerations that concern belief in God.

• 1997 October 11, Rick Moen, “TAN: Mormons”, in rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan‎^[1] (Usenet), message-ID <61ohd0$sgr@myrddin.imat.com>:

  In the unlikely event of losing Pascal's Wager, I intend to saunter in to Judgement Day with a bookshelf full of grievances, a flaming sword of my own devising, and a serious attitude problem.

• 2000 April, Justine Crump, “"Il faut parier": Pascal's Wager and Fielding's "Amelia"”, in The Modern Language Review, volume 95, number 2, →JSTOR, page 311:

  Pascal's Wager, venturing everything upon an uncertain salvation, might indeed be regarded as an absurd gamble, but in a post-Reformation world lacking even the semblance of religious certainty, the calculation of probabilities, the odds of the game, is the sole remaining criterion for judgement.

• 2001 October 17, Alan Dershowitz, Letters to a Young Lawyer, New York: Basic Books, →ISBN, →OL, page 194:

  I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place, since any God worth believing in would prefer an honest agnostic to a calculating hypocrite.

• 2003 January, Alan Hájek, “Waging War on Pascal's Wager”, in The Philosophical Review, volume 112, number 1, →JSTOR, page 27:

  Pascal's Wager is simply too good to be true—or better, too good to be sound.

• 2003 November 15, Adam Lee, “Life is Fleeting”, in Ebon Musings‎^[2], retrieved 2012-07-06:

  In essence, this is little more than a materialist version of Pascal's Wager.

• 2007 October 19, Eleizer Yudkowsky, “Pascal's Mugging: Tiny Probabilities of Vast Utilities”, in LessWrong‎^[3], retrieved 2012-07-05:

  The original version of Pascal's Wager is easily dealt with by the gigantic multiplicity of possible gods, an Allah for every Christ and a Zeus for every Allah, including the "Professor God" who places only atheists in Heaven.

• a. 2009, Ralph C. Merkle, “Pascal's Wager and Cryonics”, in Ralph C. Merkle‎^[4], retrieved 2009-01-01:

  What is sometimes called "Merkle's Matrix" proposes an analysis of cryonics that is sometimes compared with Pascal's Wager.

• 2011 February 22, Greta Christina, “Why It's Not a "Safer Bet" to Believe In God, or, Why Pascal's Wager Sucks”, in Greta Christina's Blog‎^[5], retrieved 2012-07-06:

  Pascal's Wager isn't an argument. It's an admission that you've got nothing.