Is Taking Pascal’s Wager Actually Rational? (with Nikk Effingham) @lizjackson111
Is Taking Pascal’s Wager Actually Rational? (with Nikk Effingham)  @lizjackson111
Uploaded October 2021 | Updated September 2026, 4 hours ago
In this video, Nikk Effingham (University of Birmingham) and I discuss my paper, "A Permissivist Defense of Pascal's Wager."

You can download that paper for free here: philpapers.org/rec/JACAPD-9

0:00 Introduction
4:00 Brief summary of paper
7:22 Defining and defending permissivism
11:43 Answering the impossibility objection
15:08 How widely does this apply?
16:37 Answering the irrationality objection

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