PASCALIAN WAGERS

A person who does not have good intellectual reasons for believing in God can, depending on his probabilities and values for consequences of believing, have good practical reasons. Pascalian wagers founded on a variety of possible probability/value profiles are examined from a Ba yesian perspective central to which is the idea that states and option s are pragmatically reasonable only if they maximize subjective expect ed value. Attention is paid to problems posed by representations of va lues by Cantorian infinities. An appendix attends to Robinsonian hyper reals. Another appendix presents for comparison Newcomb's Problem and a problem in some ways like it suggested, I think, by ideas of John Ca lvin.