La Forge’s Works

• [H] Clerselier, Claude (ed.), 1664, L’Homme de René Descartes et un Traitté de la Formation du Foetus du mesme autheur, Avec les Remarques de Louys de la Forge, Docteur en Medicine, demeurant à La Fleche, sur le Traité de René Descartes; & sur les Figures par luy inventées, Paris: Charles Angot.
• La Forge, Louis de, 1666, Traitté de l’Esprit de l’Homme, de ses facultez et fonctions, et de son union avec le corps. Suivant les Principes de René Descartes, Paris: Theodore Girard. [Another printing the same year, in Paris, by Michel Bobin and Nicolas Le Gras.] (Scholar)
• La Forge, Louis, 1669, Tractatus de Mente Humana, Ejus Facultatibus & Functionibus, Nec non De ejusdem unione cum corpore; secundum Principia Renati Descartes, Amsterdam: Daniel Elzevier. [a posthumous Latin translation] (Scholar)
• [T] La Forge, Louis de, 1974, Oeuvres philosophiques, avec une étude bio-bibliographique, Pierre Claire (ed.), Paris: Presses universitaires de France. (Scholar)
• [THM] La Forge, Louis de, 1997, Treatise on the Human Mind, trans. Desmond M. Clarke, Dordrecht: Kluwer. (Scholar)

Related Early Works

• Cavendish, Margaret, 1664, Philosophical Letters or, Modest Reflections Upon some Opinions in Natural Philosophy, maintained by several Famous and Learned Authors of this Age …, London. (Scholar)
• Clerselier, Claude (ed.), 1657, 1659, 1667, Lettres de M^r Descartes, 3 vols., Paris: Charles Angot. (Scholar)
• Cordemoy, Géraud de, 1666, Le Discernement du Corps et de l’Ame en six Discours, pour servir à l’éclaircissement de la Physique, Paris: Florentin Lambert. (Scholar)
• Cordemoy, Géraud de, 1968, Oeuvres philosophiques, P. Clair and F. Girbal (eds.), Paris: Presses universitaires de France. (Scholar)
• Cottingham, J., R. Stoothoff, and D. Murdoch (eds.), 1984–85, The Philosophical Works of Descartes, 2 vols., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [CSM] (Scholar)
• Gousset, Jacob, 1716, Causarum Primae et Secundarum realis operatio rationibus confirmatur, et ab abjectionibus defenditur. De His Apologia fit pro Renato Des Cartes, Adversus Discipulos ejus Pseudonymos a Jacobo Gussetio, in Epistola ad Celeb. Dominum Hautecurtium Scripta, Leovardiae: excudit Franciscus Halma, Ordinibus Frisiae Typographus. (Scholar)
• Descartes, René, 1662, De homine; figuris et latinitate donatus a F. Schuyl, Leiden: Leffer & Moyardus. (Scholar)
• Descartes, René, 1664 [1972], Treatise of Man, trans. Thomas S. Hall, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Descartes, René, 1996, Le Monde, L’Homme, Annie Bitbol-Hespériès (ed.), Paris: Éditions du Seuil. (Scholar)
• Descartes, René, 1998, The World and Other Writings, trans. S. Gaukroger, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Le Grand, Antoine, 1694, Entire Body of Philosophy according to the Principles of the Famous Renates des Cartes, by Richard Blome, London 1694. (Scholar)
• Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia and René Descartes, 2007, The Correspondence between Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia and René Descartes, Lisa Shapiro (ed. and trans.), Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
• Toland, John, 1704, Letters to Serena, London: Bernard Linton. (Scholar)

Secondary Literature

• Balz, Albert G. A., 1951, Cartesian Studies, New York : Columbia University Press. (Scholar)
• Bardout, Jean-Christoph, 2002, “Occasionalism: Cordemoy, La Forge, Geulincx”, in A Companion to Early Modern Philosophy, Steven Nadler (ed.), Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 140–151. (Scholar)
• Bordoli, Roberto, 1994, Memoria e abitudine. Descartes, La Forge, Spinoza, Milano, Edizioni Angelo Guerini e Associati (Collana ‘Socrates’ – Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici 15). (Scholar)
• Clarke, Desmond M., 1989, Occult Powers and Hypotheses: Cartesian Natural Philosophy under Louis xiv, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• Clarke, Desmond M., 2003, Descartes’s Theory of Mind, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Drieux, Philippe, 2019, “Louis de La Forge on Mind, Causality, and Union”, in The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism, Steven nadler, Tad M. Schmaltz and Delphine Antoine-Mahut (eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 319–331. (Scholar)
• Kolesnik-Antoine [Antoine-Mahut], Delphine, 2006, “Les occasionalismes en France à l’âge classique. Le « cas » arnaldien”, Revue de métaphysique et de morale, 49(1): 41–54. (Scholar)
• –––, 2009, L’homme certésien, Rennes: PuR.
• –––, 2012, ‘Les voies du corps. Schuyl, Clerselier, et La Forge lecteurs de L’Homme de Descartes’, Consecutio Temporum 3(2): 118–128. [Available online] (Scholar)
• Garber, Daniel, 1987, “How God Causes Motion: Descartes, Divine Sustenance, and Occasionalism”, Journal of Philosophy, 84(10): 567–580. (Scholar)
• Nadler, Steven, 2011, Occasionalism: Causation Among the Cartesians, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Nadler, Steven, Tad M. Schmaltz, and Delphine Antoine-Mahut (eds.), 2019, The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Ott, Walter, 2009, Causation and Laws of Nature in Early Modern Philosophy, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Radner, Dasie, 1993, “Occasionalism”, in The Renaissance and Seventeenth-Century Rationalism, G. H. R. Parkinson (ed.), London and New York: Routledge, 320–352. (Scholar)
• Sangiacomo, Andrea, 2013, “Dall’origine della superstizione all’origine del movimento: lo strano caso della confutazione tolandiana di Spinoza”, Rivista di Storia della Filosofia, 68: 645–671. (Scholar)
• –––, 2014, “Louis de La Forge and the Non-Transfer Argument for Occasionalism”, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 22: 60–80. (Scholar)
• –––, 2016, “From Secondary Causes to Artificial Instruments: Pierre-Sylvain Régis’s Rethinking of Scholastic Accounts of Causation”, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (Part A), 60: 7–17. (Scholar)
• Schmaltz, Tad, 2017, Early Modern Cartesianisms: Dutch and French Constructions, Oxford University Press, New York. (Scholar)
• Scribano, Emanuela, 2015, Macchine con la mente. Fisiologia e Metafisica tra Cartesio e Spinoza, Roma: Carocci. (Scholar)
• Sutton, John, 1998, Philosophy and Memory Traces: Descartes to Connectionism, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Van Otegem, Matthijs, 2002, A Bibliography of the Works of Descartes (1637–1704), 2 vols., Utrecht: Zeno (The Leiden-Utrecht Research Institute of Philosophy). (Scholar)