
The Automaton’s Conversion
Gabriel Albiac
The philosopher, writer and Universidad Complutense de Madrid Professor Emeritus, Gabriel Albiac, editor of an anthology of Blaise Pascal’s works titled La máquina de buscar a Dios, observes: “In the seventeenth century, Pascal is an extreme case, that of the thinker who tried to put up the last barriers defining the scope of scientists’ religious thought”.