Blaise Pascal's Quadricentennial
Vita Nova Lecture Hall (100) 385 E 9th St, Claremont, CA 91711
Claremont 91711
United States
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Scripps College, Claremont is hosting a philosophy conference in honor of Pascal’s 400th birthday. All are invited, but we ask that people RSVP. The conference is on March 24-26.
Below are the details, including speakers. Updated details available at conference website https://sites.google.com/view/pascalconference23.
Please RSVP to me (Yuval Avnur [email protected]). This is a hybrid event/zoom attendance is available.
--Yuval Avnur Professor and Chair, Philosophy Scripps College, Claremont
Blaise Pascal
(born 1623, Clermont-Ferrand)
From Clermont to Claremont
In Honor of Pascal’s Quadricentennial, &
In Preparation for The Blackwell Companion to Pascal (Roger Ariew & Yuval Avnur, eds.)
Location:
Scripps College, Claremont
Vita Nova Lecture Hall 100
With generous support from
*The Scripps College Dean of Faculty, Harper Funds, Humanities Institute, EU Center, and Philosophy department
*The Pomona College departments of Religious Studies and Philosophy
*The Claremont McKenna College Philosophy department.
Conference website: https://sites.google.com/view/pascalconference23
Program:
Friday, March 24
I. Religion, Ethics, and Political Philosophy
9:00-10:00
Pascal’s Wager in the Light of the Apologetics of His Time
Roger Ariew (University of South Florida)
10:15-11:15
Pascal on Divine Hiddenness
John Schellenberg (Mount Saint Vincent University (by Zoom)
11:30-12:30
The Ethics of Debate in Pascal’s Provinciales
Syliane Malinowski-Charles & Marc André Bernier (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières)
LUNCH 12:30-1:30
1:30-2:30
Pascal's Political Philosophy
Ryan Hanley (Boston College)
II. Epistemology & Metaphysics
2:45-3:45
What You See is What You See: Knowledge, Belief and Truth in Pascal's Philosophy
Yoen Qian-Laurent (Sorbonne Université)
BREAK
4:15-5:15
Pascal and the Port-Royal Logic
Elodie Cassan (École Normale Supérieure, Lyon)
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Saturday, March 25
III. Mathematics and Natural Philosophy
9:00-10:00
Pascal and Philosophy of Science
Sophie Roux (École Normale Supérieure, Paris)
10:15-11:15
Dettonville and Euclid’s Givens
Sébastien Maronne (Université de Toulouse) (by ZOOM)
11:30-12:30
Pascal’s Physics
Aaron Spink (Dartmouth College)
LUNCH 12:30-1:30
IV. Philosophical Legacy
1:30-2:30
Kant
Lawrence Pasternack (Oklahoma State University) (by ZOOM)
2:45-3:45
Kierkegaard
Lydia Amir (Tufts University)
BREAK
4:15-5:15
Pascal in the Light of the Phenomenology of Max Scheler and Martin Heidegger
Sylvain Josset (Sorbonne Université)
Conference Banquet at the Hampton Dining Room
6:00-9:00pm
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Sunday, March 26
(IV. Philosophical Legacy cont’d)
9:00-10:00
Marxists
Michael Moriarty (University of Cambridge) (by ZOOM)
10:15-11:15
Malebranche
Madeleine Ropars (Université de Caen) (by ZOOM)
V. Pascal’s Context
11:30-12:30
Pascal and Descartes
Dan Arbib (École Normale Supérieure, Paris)
LUNCH 12:30-1:30
1:30-2:30
Jacqueline Pascal, Gilberte (Pascal) Périer, and Marguerite Périer
Daniel Colette (Marquette University)
2:45-4:00
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