The Schedule

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 (part 1)

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

(for speakers and by invitation only)

6:00-9:00pm

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Sunday, March 26

V. Philosophical Legacy (part 2)

9:00-10:00

Marxists

Michael Moriarty (University of Cambridge) (by Zoom)

10:15-11:15

Malebranche

Madeleine Ropars (Université de Caen) (by Zoom)

VI. 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

       General Discussion 

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