Primary Literature

Condillac’s Works

• Lettres inédites à Gabriel Cramer, Georges Le Roy (ed.), Paris: Press Universitaires de France, 1953. For important revisions to Le Roy’s dating of Condillac’s letters, see Petacco 1971. (Scholar)
• Les Monades, Bongie, Laurence (ed.), in Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 187, 1980.
• Oeuvres philosophiques, Georges Le Roy (ed.), 3 volumes, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1947–1951.
  • Volume I (1947) contains the Essai sur l’origine des connoissances humaines, Traité des Systêmes, Traité des Sensations, “Dissertation sur la liberté,” “Réponse a un reproche qui m’a été fait sur le project exécuté dans le Traité des Sensations,” “Extrait raisonné du traité des sensations,” Traité des Animaux, “Lettre de monsieur l’abbé de Condillac à l’auteur des ‘Lettres à un Américan,’” “Discours de réception a l’académie Françoise,” and selections from the Cours d’études pour l’instruction du Prince de Parme, including the introduction to the course of studies, Grammaire, De l’art d’écrire, De l’art de raisonner, and De l’art de Penser, It is prefaced by Le Roy’s introduction, surveying Condillac’s life, the development of his thought, and his influence. (Scholar)
  • Volume II (1948) contains excerpts from the treatment of ancient and modern history in the Cours d’études, Le Commerce et le Gouvernement, La Logique, La Langue des Calculs, and correspondence. (Scholar)
  • Volume III (1951) contains the Dictionnaire des synonymes and a bibliography containing directions regarding Condillac manuscripts and correspondence. (Scholar)
• Condillac, Lefèvre, Roger, Vienne: Segliers, 1966. This contains substantial selections from Condillac’s works interpersed with running commentary. It is an excellent introduction to his thought. (Scholar)
• Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge, Hans Aarsleff (trans.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
• La Logique/Logic, W. R. Albury (ed. and trans.), New York: Abaris, 1980. This is a bilingual edition with English translation and a facsimilie reproduction of an early French edition on facing pages. Unfortunately, the editor neglects to indicate which edition is being reproduced. (Scholar)
• Condillac’s treatise on the sensations, Geraldine Carr (trans.), London: Favil Press, 1930.
• An Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge: being a supplement to Mr. Locke’s essay on the human understanding, Thomas Nugent (trans.), London: J. Nourse, 1756. Reprinted in facsimilie, 1971, Gainsville: Scholar’s Facsimilies and Reprints.
• Philosophical Writings of Etienne Bonnot, Abbé de Condillac, 2 volumes, Franklin Philip (trans.), Hillsdale NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1982–87.
  • Volume I (1982) contains A Treatise on Systems, A Treatise on Sensations, and Logic, or the First Developments of the Art of Thinking. The translation of Condillac’s introduction to the Treatise on Sensations, contains a translation of the “Extrait rasonné,” without acknowledgement or separation from the rest of Condillac’s original introduction. The translation of the Treatise on Sensations, omits the “Dissertation on Liberty.” (Scholar)
  • Volume II (1987) contains a judicious abridgment of the Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge, and the introduction to the Course of Study for the Prince of Parma,
• Commerce and Government Considered in Their Mutual Relationship, Shelagh Eltis (trans.), with an introduction by Shelagh Eltis and Walter Eltis, Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2008.

Related Primary Source Material

• Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de, Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1749–53.
• Bonnet, Charles, 1755, Essai de psychologie, Hildesheim: Olms, 1978. (Scholar)
• Chesselden, W., 1728, “An Account of some Observations made by a young Gentleman who was born blind ... and was couch’d between 13 and 14 Years of Age,” London: W. Innys, 1729; reprinted in Royal Society of London, Philosophical Transactions, 35 (402): 447–450. (Scholar)
• Diderot, Denis, 1749, “Letter on the Blind for the Use of Those Who See,” in Diderot’s Early Philosophical Works, Margaret Jourdain (trans.), New York: Burt Franklin, 1972. (Scholar)
• Helvetius, Claude A., 1760, De L’esprit, or, Essays on the mind and its several faculties, New York: Burt Franklin, 1970. (Scholar)
• Hume, David, 1739, A Treatise of Human Nature, Book I, David Fate Norton and Mary J. Norton (eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. (Scholar)
• Lignac, Joseph Adrien Lelarge, Abbé de [Réaumur, René Antoine Ferchault de], 1756, Suite des “Lettres à un Américan” sur les IV et V Volumes de l’ “Histoire Naturelle” de M. de Buffon, et sur le “Traité des Animaux” de M. l’abbé de Condillac, 4 vols., Hambourg. (Cited by Le Roy in Condillac, Oeuvres philosophiques, vol. I: 381 n.19.) (Scholar)
• Reid, Thomas, 1764, An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense, Derek R. Brookes (ed.), University Park: The Pennsylvania State University, 1997. (Scholar)
• Tetens, Johan Nicolai, 1777, Philosophische Versuche über die menschliche Natur und ihre Entwicklung, Wilhelm Uebele (ed.), Berlin: Reuther & Richard, 1913. (Scholar)

Secondary Literature

• Aarsleff, Hans, 1975, “Condillac’s Speechless Statue,” Akten des II. Internationalen Leibniz-Kongresses (Volume 4), Wiesbaden: 287–302. (Scholar)
• Aarsleff, Hans, 1982, From Locke to Saussure: Essays on the Study of Language and Intellectual History, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota. (Scholar)
• Aarsleff, Hans, 2006, “Philosophy of Language,” in Knud Haakonssen (ed.), The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, Volume 1, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Albury, W. R., 1986, “The order of Ideas,” in John A. Shuster (ed.), The Politics and Rhetoric of Scientific Method, Dordrecht: Kluwer. (Scholar)
• Baertschi, Bernard, 1984, “La statue de Condillac, image du reel ou fiction logique?” Revue Philosophique de Louvain, 82: 335–364. (Scholar)
• Baguenault de Puchesse, Gustave, 1910, Condillac: sa vie, sa philosophie, son influence, Paris: Plon-Nourrit. (Scholar)
• Beal, M. W., 1973, “Condillac as Precursor of Kant,” Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 102: 193–229. (Scholar)
• Bertrand, Aliènor (ed.), 2002, Condillac: L’origine de langage, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. (Scholar)
• Bertrand, Aliènor (ed.), 2002, Le vocabulaire de Condillac, Paris: Ellipses. (Scholar)
• Bongie, Laurence L., 1978, “A new Condillac Letter and the Genesis of the Traité des sensations,” Journal of the History of Philosophy, 16: 83–94. (Scholar)
• Cassirer, Ernst, 1951, The Philosophy of the Enlightenment, C.A. Koellin and James P. Pettegrove (trans.), Boston: Beacon. (Scholar)
• Charrak, André, 2003, Empirisme et métaphysique: L’Essai sur l’origine des connaissances humaines de Condillac, Paris: J. Vrin. (Scholar)
• Dagognet, François, 2004, L’animal selon Condillac: Étude sur le Traité des animaux, Paris: J. Vrin.
• Derrida, Jacques, 1987, The Archaeology of the Frivolous, John P. Leavy (trans.), Lincoln: University of Nebraska. (Scholar)
• Duchesneau, François, 1974, “Condillac critique de Locke,” Studi Internationali di Filosofia, 6: 77–98. (Scholar)
• Falkenstein, Lorne, 2005, “Condillac’s Paradox,” Journal of the History of Philosophy, 43: 403–435. (Scholar)
• Funke, Gerhard, 1957, “Natur und zweite Natur im konsequenten Sensualismus. Condillacs Transformationstheorie,” Philosophia Narturalis, 4: 101–125. (Scholar)
• George, Rolf A., 1991, “The Tradition of Thought Experiments,” in Tamara Horowitz (ed.), Epistemology in Thought Experiments in Science and Philosophy, Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. (Scholar)
• Gilot, Michel and Sgard, Jean, 1981, “Biographie,” in Jean Sgard, ed., Corpus Condillac, Geneva: Slatkine. (Scholar)
• Grandi, Giovanni B., 2008, “Reid and Condillac on Sensation and Perception: A Thought Experiment on Sensory Deprivation,” Southwest Philosophy Review, 24: 191–200. (Scholar)
• Hasnaoui, C., 1977, “Condillac, chemins du sensualisme,” in M. Duchet and M. Jalley (eds.), Langues et langages de Leibniz à l’ encyclopédie, Paris: U.G.E. (Scholar)
• Heidsieck, François, 1985, “La métaphysique de Condillac,” Archives de Philosophie, 48: 643–652. (Scholar)
• Hine McNiven, Ellen, 1979, A Critical Study of Condillac’s Traité des Systems, The Hague: M. Nijhoff. (Scholar)
• Jacquette, Dale, 2015, “Condillac’s Analytic Dilemma,” History of Philosophy Quarterly, 32: 141–160. (Scholar)
• Joly, Andre, 1985, “Cartesian or Condillacian Linguistics?” Topoi, 4: 145–49. (Scholar)
• Knight, Isabel F., 1968, “Bibliographical Essay,” in Isabel Knight, The Geometric Spirit: The Abbé de Condillac and the French Enlightenment, New Haven: Yale. (Scholar)
• Knight, Isabel F., 1968, The Geometric Spirit: The Abbé de Condillac and the French Enlightenment, New Haven: Yale. Though dated, this work remains unsurpassed as the authorative treatment of Condillac’s thought in English. (Scholar)
• Kourim. Z., 1974. “Le discours de la méthode de Condillac,” Revue de métaphysique et de morale, 79: 177–195. (Scholar)
• Kreimendahl, Lothar, 1982, “Condillac und die Monaden. Zu einem neuaufgefundenen Text des Abbés,” Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, 64: 280–288. (Scholar)
• Kreimendahl, Lothar, 1984, “Bibliographie des Schrifttums zu Condillac (1840–1980),” Zeitschrift für philosophische Forchung, 38: 311–321. (Scholar)
• Kreimendahl, Lothar, 1994, Hauptwerke der Philosophie. Rationalismus und Empirismus, Stuttgart: Reclam. (Scholar)
• Krüger, Lorenz, 1973, “Empirismus und Sensualismus: ein Exkurs über Condillac,” in Lorenz Krüger (ed.), Der Begriff des Empirismus. Erkenntnistheoretische Studien am Beispiel John Lockes, Berlin: De Gruyter. (Scholar)
• Koana, Akiko, 1985, “La theorie musicale dans l’epistemologie de Condillac,” in Peter McCormick (ed.), The Reasons of Art, Ottawa: University of Ottawa. (Scholar)
• Lenoir, Raymond, 1924, Condillac, Paris: F. Alcan. (Scholar)
• LeRoy, Georges, 1937, La psychologie de Condillac, Paris: Boivin. (Scholar)
• Malherbe, Michel, 2004, “Introduction” to Condillac, Traité des animaux, Paris: J. Vrin. (Scholar)
• McRae, Robert, 1961, The Problem of the Unity of the Sciences: Bacon to Kant, Toronto: University of Toronto. (Scholar)
• Morgan, Michael J., 1977, Molyneux’s Question. Vision, Touch and the Philosophy of Perception, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• O’Neal, John C, 1996, The Authority of Experience: Sensationist Theory in the French Enlightenment, University Park: The Pennsylvania State University. (Scholar)
• Oppenheimer, Angelika, 2006, “Introduction”, Angelika Oppenheimer (trans.), Versuch über den Ursprung der menschlichen Erkenntnis, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann. (Scholar)
• Paganini, Gianni, 1992, “Psychologie et physiologie de l’entendement chez Condillac,” Dix-huitieme siecle, 24: 165–178. (Scholar)
• Paganini, Gianni, 1988, “Signes, imagination et mémoire: De la psychologie de Wolff à l’Essai de Condillac” Revue des Sciences Philosophiques et Theologiques, 72: 287–300. (Scholar)
• Paradis, André, 1993, “De Condillac a Pinel ou les fondements philosophiques du traitement moral,” Philosophiques, 20: 69–112. (Scholar)
• Pastore, Nicholas, 1971, Selective History of Theories of Visual Perception: 1650–1950, New York: Oxford. (Scholar)
• Pécharman, Martine, 1999, “Signification et langage dans l’Essai de Condillac,” Revue de métaphysique et de morale, (1): 81–103. (Scholar)
• Petacco, Piero, 1971, “Note sul carteggio Condillac–Cramer,” Belfagor, 26: 83–95. (Scholar)
• Robert, Thomas, 2012, “Les deux langages d’action condillaciens: corps, langage, connaissances,” Rivista italiana di filosofia del linguaggio, 5: 150–162. (Scholar)
• Roberts, Lissa, 1992, “Condillac, Lavoiser, and the Instrumentalization of Science,” Kennis Methode, 16: 172–190. (Scholar)
• Rousseau, Nicholas, 1986, Connaissance et langage chez Condillac, Geneva: Droz. (Scholar)
• Sgard, Jean (ed.), 1981, Corpus Condillac, Geneva: Slatkine. (Scholar)
• Sgard, Jean (ed.), 1982, Condillac et les problèmes du langage, Geneva: Slatkine. (Scholar)
• Wells, G.A., 1987, The Origin of Language: Aspects of the Discussion from Condillac to Wundt, Chicago: Open Court. (Scholar)
• Wojciechowska, Wanda, “Le sensualisme de Condillac,” Revue philosophique de la France et de l’étranger, 158: 297–320. (Scholar)