Garber (philosophy, Princeton U.) was invited to deliver the 2009
Aquinas Lecture, an annual event sponsored by the Wisconsin-Alpha
chapter of Phi Sigma Tau at Marquette University. He explores the
consequences of French philosopher Blaise Pascal's (1623-62) famous
conclusion that believing in a God that did not exist was safer than not
believing in one that did. Among the aspects he ponders are
self-deception and deciding to believe, non-cognitivity and contingency,
and rationality and history. He provides copious footnotes and a
bibliography, but no index.