Primary Literature

Works by Cavendish

• 1653, Poems and Fancies, London, printed by T.R. for J. Martin and J. Allestrye.
• 1653, Philosophicall Fancies, London, printed by Tho. Roycroft for J. Martin and J. Allestrye.
• 1655, The World’s Olio, London, printed for J. Martin and J. Allestrye. (Scholar)
• 1662, Cavendish, Margaret, Orations of Divers Sorts, Accommodated to Divers Places, London.
• 1662, Bell in Campo, in Playes, London: John Martyn, James Allestry, and Tho. Dicas.
• 1663 [1655], Cavendish, Margaret, Philosophical and Physical Opinions, London: printed for William Wilson (1655). The references in the text are to the second edition (1663). Note that Cavendish produced a third edition of Philosophical and Physical Opinions in 1668, though she also gave the edition a new title – Grounds of Natural Philosophy – as she explains in its preface. (Scholar)
• 1664, Cavendish, Margaret, Philosophical Letters, London.
• 1664, Sociable Letters, London: William Wilson.
• 1666, The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World, in Margaret Cavendish: Political Writings, ed. Susan James, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2003).
• 1668, Observations upon Experimental Philosophy, ed. Eileen O’Neill, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2001).
• 1668, Grounds of Natural Philosophy, ed. Colette V. Michael, West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press (1996).
• 1668, “Further Observations Upon Experimental Philosophy,” in Observations Upon Experimental Philosophy, London, printed by A. Maxwell, in the Year 1668. (Scholar)
• 1668, “Observatios Upon the Opinions of Some Ancient Philosophers,” in Observations Upon Experimental Philosophy, London, printed by A. Maxwell, in the Year 1668. (Scholar)
• 1671, Natures Picture, London, printed by A. Maxwell, in the year 1671.

Other Primary Works

• Augustine, On Free Choice of the Will, Thomas Williams (ed. and trans.), Indianapolis and Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, 1993.
• Boyle, Robert (1666), The Origin of Forms and Qualities According to the Corpuscular Philosophy, in M.A. Stewart (ed.), Selected Philosophical Papers of Robert Boyle, Indianapolis and Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, 1991. (Scholar)
• Conway, Anne (1690), The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy, Alison P. Coudert and Taylor Corse (eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. (Scholar)
• Cudworth, Ralph (1678), The True Intellectual System of the Universe, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: F. Fromann Verlag, 1964. (Scholar)
• Descartes, René (1641), “Appendix to Fifth Objections and Replies,” in John Cottingham, Robert Stoothoff, and Dugald Murdoch, The Philosophical Writings of Descartes, Volume II, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984, 268–277. (Scholar)
• Descartes, René (1644), Principles of Philosophy, in John Cottingham, Robert Stoothoff, and Dugald Murdoch, The Philosophical Writings of Descartes, Volume I, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. (Scholar)
• Digby, Kenelm (1644), Two Treatises in the One of Which, the Nature of Bodies; in the Other, the Nature of Mans Soule; is Looked Into: in Way of Discovery, of the Immortality of Reasonable Soules, Paris: printed by Gilles Blaizot. (Scholar)
• Gassendi, Pierre (1641), Fifth Objections, in John Cottingham, Robert Stoothoff, and Dugald Murdoch, The Philosophical Writings of Descartes, Volume II, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1984, 179–240. (Scholar)
• Hobbes, Thomas (1651), Leviathan, ed. Richard Tuck, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. (Scholar)
• Hume, David (1748), An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, ed. Tom L. Beauchamp, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. (Scholar)
• Hume, David (1779), Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, in J.C.A. Gaskin (ed.), David Hume: Dialogues and Natural History of Religion, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. (Scholar)
• Leibniz, G.W. (1698), “On Nature Itself,” in Leroy E. Loemker (ed. and trans.), Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: Philosophical Papers and Letters, 2^nd Edition, Dordrecht & Boston: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1969. (Scholar)
• Leibniz, G.W. (1686), “Letter to Arnauld, July 14, 1686,” in Leroy E. Loemker (ed. and trans.), Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: Philosophical Papers and Letters, 2^nd Edition, Dordrecht & Boston: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1969. (Scholar)
• Locke, John (1689), An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, ed. Peter H. Nidditch, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975. (Scholar)
• Lucretius, On the Nature of Things, Anthony M. Esolen (trans. and ed.), Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
• Malebranche, Nicolas (1674–5), The Search After Truth, Thomas M. Lennon and Paul J. Oscamp (ed. and trans.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. (Scholar)
• Malebranche, Nicolas (1688), Dialogues on Metaphysics and on Religion, Nicholas Jolley and David Scott (ed. and trans.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. (Scholar)
• More, Henry (1653), Antidote Against Atheism, London: printed by Roger Daniel, 51–2. (Scholar)
• Plato, Phaedo, in Five Dialogues, G.M.A. Grube (ed. and trans.), Indianapolis and Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, 1981.
• Plotinus, “On Beauty,” in Essential Plotinus: Representative Treatises from the Enneads, Elmer O’Brien (trans. and ed.), Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Company (1975). (Scholar)
• Spinoza, Baruch (1662), Short Treatise on God, Man, and His Well-Being, in Michael Morgan (ed.) and Samuel Shirley (trans.), Spinoza: The Complete Works, Indianapolis and Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, 2002. (Scholar)

Secondary Literature

• Adams, Marcus P., 2016, “Visual Perception as Patterning: Cavendish Against Hobbes on Sensation,” History of Philosophy Quarterly, 33: 193–214. (Scholar)
• Battigelli, Anna, 1998, Margaret Cavendish and The Exiles of the Mind, Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky. (Scholar)
• Borcherding, Julia, 2022, “A Most Subtle Matter: Cavendish’s and Conway’s (Im)Materialism,” in The Routledge Handbook of Idealism and Immaterialism, ed. Joshua Farris and Benedikt Paul Göcke, New York: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Boyle, Deborah, 2006,“Fame, Virtue, and Government: Margaret Cavendish on Ethics and Politics,” Journal of the History of Ideas, 67: 251–289. (Scholar)
• –––, 2017, A Well-Ordered Universe: The Philosophy of Margaret Cavendish, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Branscum, Olivia, 2022, Recovering Matter’s “Most Noble Attribute:” Panpsychist-Materialist Monism in Margaret Cavendish, Anne Conway, and 17th-Century English Thought, Ph.D. Dissertation, Columbia University. (Scholar)
• Broad, Jacqueline, 2002, Women Philosophers of the Seventeenth Century, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2007, “Margaret Cavendish and Joseph Glanvill: science, religion and witchcraft,” Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, 38: 493–505. (Scholar)
• Chalmers, David, 1996, The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory, New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Chamberlain, Colin, 2019, “Color in a Material World: Margaret Cavendish Against the Early Modern Mechanists,” The Philosophical Review, 128: 293–336. (Scholar)
• Clucas, Stephen, 1994, “The Atomism of the Cavendish Circle: A Reappraisal,” The Seventeenth Century, 9: 247–273. (Scholar)
• –––, 2003, “Variation, Irregularity and Probabilism: Margaret Cavendish and Natural Philosophy as Rhetoric,” in Stephen Clucas, A Princely Brave Woman: Essays on Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, Hampshire (England) and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 199–209. (Scholar)
• Cunning, David, 2003, “Systematic Divergences in Malebranche and Cudworth,” Journal of the History of Philosophy, 43: 343–363. (Scholar)
• –––, 2006, “Cavendish on the Intelligibility of the Prospect of Thinking Matter,” History of Philosophy Quarterly, 23: 117–136. (Scholar)
• –––, 2016, Cavendish, New York: Routledge. (Scholar)
• –––, 2017, “Mind-Body Problems,” in Daniel Kaufman (ed.), Routledge Companion to Seventeenth-Century Philosophy, New York: Routledge Publishing. (Scholar)
• –––, 2021, “The Feminist Worlds of Margaret Cavendish,” in World-Making Renaissance Women, ed. Pamela Hammons and Brandie Siegfried, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 184–198. (Scholar)
• –––, 2022, “Cavendish, Philosophical Letters, and the Plenum,” in Cavendish: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, ed. Lisa Walters and Brandie Siegfried, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 98–111. (Scholar)
• –––, forthcoming, “Cavendish and Strawson on Emergence, Mind, and Self,” Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Mind. (Scholar)
• Detlefsen, Karen, 2006, “Atomism, Monism, and Causation in the Natural Philosophy of Margaret Cavendish,” in Daniel Garber and Steven Nadler (eds.), Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, 3: 199–240. (Scholar)
• –––, 2007, “Reason and Freedom: Margaret Cavendish on the Order and Disorder of Nature,” Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, 89: 157–191. (Scholar)
• –––, 2009, “Margaret Cavendish on the Relationship Between God and World,” Philosophy Compass, 4: 421–438. (Scholar)
• Hatfield, Gary, 1979, “Force (God) in Descartes’ Physics,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 10: 113–140. (Scholar)
• Hutton, Sarah, 1997a, “In Dialogue with Thomas Hobbes: Margaret Cavendish’s natural philosophy,” Women’s Writing, 4: 421–432. (Scholar)
• –––, 1997b, “Cudworth, Boethius and the Scale of Nature,” in G.A.J. Rogers, J.M. Vienne, and Y.C. Zarka (eds.), The Cambridge Platonists in Philosophical Context, Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers. (Scholar)
• James, Susan, 1999, “The Philosophical Innovations of Margaret Cavendish,” British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 7: 219–244. (Scholar)
• –––, 2003, “Introduction”, in Margaret Cavendish: Political Writings, ed. Susan James, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Jolley, Nicholas, 1984, Leibniz and Locke: A Study of the New Essays on Human Understanding, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• Lascano, Marcy P., 2020, “Margaret Cavendish and Early Modern Scientific Experimentalism: ‘Boys that play with watery bubbles or fling dust into each other’s eyes, or make a hobbyhorse of snow’,” in Sharon Crasnow and Kristen Intemann (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Feminist Philosophy of Science, London and New York: Routledge, 28–40. (Scholar)
• –––, 2021, “Cavendish and Hobbes on Causation,” in Marcus Adams (ed.), A Companion to Hobbes, Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell. (Scholar)
• –––, forthcoming, The Metaphysics of Margaret Cavendish and Anne Conway: Monism, Vitalism, and Self-Motion, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Lewis, Eric, 2001, “The Legacy of Margaret Cavendish,” Perspective on Science, 9: 341–365. (Scholar)
• McGinn, Colin, 1999, The Mysterious Flame: Conscious Minds in a Material World, New York: Basic Books. (Scholar)
• McGuire, Mary Ann, 1978, “Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, on the Nature and Status of Women,” International Journal of Women’s Studies, 1: 193–206. (Scholar)
• McNulty, Michael, 2018, “Margaret cavendish on the order and infinitude of nature,” History of Philosophy Quarterly, 35: 219–239. (Scholar)
• Michaelian, Kourken, 2009, “Margaret Cavendish’s Epistemology,” British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 17: 31–53. (Scholar)
• O’Neill, Eileen, 1998, “Disappearing Ink: Early Modern Women Philosophers and Their Fate in History,” in Janet A. Kourany (ed.), Philosophy in a Feminist Voice, Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2001, “Introduction,” in Margaret Cavendish, Observations upon Experimental Philosophy, Eileen O’Neill (ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, –xxxxvi. (Scholar)
• Nagel, Thomas, 1974, “What is it Like to be a Bat?,” The Philosophical Review, 83: 435–450. (Scholar)
• Peterman, Alison, 2017, “Empress vs. Spider-Man: Margaret Cavendish on pure and applied mathematics,” Synthese, 196: 3527–3549. (Scholar)
• –––, 2019, “Cavendish on Motion and Mereology,” Journal of the History of Philosophy, 57: 471–99. (Scholar)
• Rée, Jonathan, 2002, “Women Philosophers and the Canon,” British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 10: 641–652. (Scholar)
• Sarasohn, Lisa, 2010, The Natural Philosophy of Margaret Cavendish, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. (Scholar)
• Schiebinger, Londa, 1991, “Margaret Cavendish,” in A History of Women Philosophers, Mary Ellen Waithe (ed.), Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1–20. (Scholar)
• Searle, John, 1986, Minds, Brains and Science, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Shaheen, Jonathan, 2019, “Parts of Nature and Division in Margaret Cavendish’s Materialism,” Synthese, 196: 3551–3575. (Scholar)
• Strawson, Galen, 2008, “Realistic Monism: Why Physicalism entails Panpsychism,” in Real Materialism and other essays, ed. Galen Strawson, Oxford University Press, 53–74. (Scholar)
• Walters, Lisa, 2013, “Omitted Edition of Margaret Cavendish’s Philosophical and Physical Opinions (1663),” Notes and Queries, 60(4): 542–545. (Scholar)
• Walters, Lisa, 2014, Margaret Cavendish: Gender, Science and Politics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Whitaker, Katie, 2002, Mad Madge: The Extraordinary Life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, the First Woman to Live by Her Pen, New York: Basic Books. (Scholar)
• White, Graham, 2009, “Medieval Theories of Causation,” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2009 Edition), Edward Zalta (ed.), URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2009/entries/causation-medieval/>. (Scholar)