Pascal's Wager
Pragmatic Arguments and Belief in God
Jordan, Jeff University of Delaware
Print publication date: 2006 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2007
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-929132-8







doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199291328.003.0003

Jeff Jordan
Abstract: The Jamesian Wager has as a premise: the proposition that theistic belief is more rewarding than non-belief in this life, whether or not God exists. This proposition provides the Pascalian a way of circumventing the many-gods objection, which states that the Wager fails because it proves too much. Any number of incompatible religious options can be supported by a wager relevantly like that of Pascal. Three versions of the many-gods objection are examined.

Keywords: many-gods objection, Kantian gap, Leslie Stephens,

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