Recent Editions of the Port-Royal Logic

All quotations and citations to the Port Royal Logic are to the Buroker translation, 1996, listed below.

• Arnauld, Antoine et Pierre Nicole, La Logique ou l’art de penser, édition critique par Pierre Clair et François Girbal, Paris. J. Vrin, 1981.
• Arnauld, Antoine et Pierre Nicole, La Logique ou l’art de penser, édition critique par Dominique Descartes, Paris: Champion, 2011.
• Arnauld, Antoine, The Art of Thinking, Port-Royal Logic, translated by James Dickoff and Patricia James, New York: Library of Liberal Arts, 1964. [Watson (1967) argues that using this translation requires caution.]
• [Logic] Arnauld, Antoine and Pierre Nicole, Logic or the Art of Thinking, translated by Jill Vance Buroker, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. References are to part, chapter, and page number. doi:10.1017/CBO9781139166768 (Scholar)

Works Cited or Recommended

• Arnauld, Antoine, 1667, Noveaux Élements de Géométrie (New Elements of Geometry), Paris: Savreux. (Scholar)
• Buroker, Jill Vance, 1993, “The Port-Royal Semantics of Terms”, Synthese, 96(3): 455–475. doi:10.1007/bf01064012 (Scholar)
• –––, 1994, “Judgment and Predication in the Port-Royal Logic”, in The Great Arnauld and some of his Philosophical Correspondents, Elmar J. Kremer (ed.), Toronto: University of Toronto Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1996, “Arnauld on Judging and the Will”, in Interpreting Arnauld, Elmar J. Kremer (ed.), Toronto: University of Toronto Press. (Scholar)
• Chomsky, Noam, 1966 [2009], Cartesian Linguistics: A Chapter in the History of Rationalist Thought, New York: Harper & Row. Third edition, James McGilvray (ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511803116 (Scholar)
• Clark, Ruth, 1932 [1972], Strangers and Sojourners at Port Royal; Being An Account of the Connections Between British Isles and the Jansenists of France and Holland, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Reprinted 1972 New York: Octagon Books, 1972. (Scholar)
• Descartes, René, c. 1628, Regulae ad Directionem Ingenii (Rules for Direction of the Mind), manuscript. Translated in CSM I: 7–78. (Scholar)
• –––, 1637, Discours de la Méthode pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la vérité dans les sciences (Discourse on the Method), Leiden. Translated in CSM I: 111–151. (Scholar)
• –––, 1641, Meditationes de prima philosophia, in qua Dei existentia et animae immortalitas demonstrantur (Meditations on First Principles, Paris: Michel Soly. Translated in CSM II. (Scholar)
• –––, 1644, Principia Philosophiae (Principles of Philosophy, Amsterdam: Elzevir. Translated in CSM I: 177–291. (Scholar)
• [CSM] –––, 1984–91, The Philosophical Writings of Descartes, 3 volumes, John Cottingham, Robert Stoothoff, and Dugald Murdoch (trans. and eds) and Anthony Kenny (volume 3 only), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [abbreviated CSM I/II]. (Scholar)
• Finocchiaro, Maurice A., 1997, “The Port-Royal Logic’s Theory of Argument”, Argumentation, 11(4): 393–410. doi:10.1023/a:1007756105432 (Scholar)
• Frege, Gottlob, 1918, “Die Verneinung. Eine Logische Untersuchung”, Beiträge zur Philosophie des deutschen Idealismus, I (1919): 143–157. Translated as “Negation”, Peter Geach (trans.) in Frege 1952: 117–35. (Scholar)
• –––, 1952, Translations from the Philosophical Writings of Gottlob Frege, Peter Geach and Max Black (ed. and trans.), New York: Philosophical Library. (Scholar)
• Gaukroger, Stephen, 1989, Cartesian Logic: An Essay on Descartes’s Conception of Inference, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• Grey, John, 2017, “The Modal Equivalence Rules of the Port-Royal Logic”, History and Philosophy of Logic, 38(3): 210–221. doi:10.1080/01445340.2017.1318256 (Scholar)
• Hacking, Ian, 1975, Why Does Language Matter to Philosophy?, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511627873 (Scholar)
• Jaffro, Laurent, 2018, “Locke and Port Royal on Affirmation, Negation, and Other ‘Postures of the Mind’”, in Locke and Cartesian Philosophy, Philippe Hamou and Martine Pécharman (eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 172–185. (Scholar)
• Jones, Matthew L., 2006, The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution: Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, and the Cultivation of Virtue, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
• Kneale, William and Martha Kneale, 1962 [1984], The Development of Logic, Oxford: Clarendon Press. Reprinted with corrections 1984. (Scholar)
• Lachterman, David Rapport, 1989, The Ethics of Geometry: A Genealogy of Modernity, New York: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Lennon, Thomas M., 2008, The Plain Truth: Descartes, Huet, and Skepticism, (Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History 170), Leiden/Boston: Brill. doi:10.1163/ej.9789004171152.i-258 (Scholar)
• Martin, John N., 2020, The Cartesian Semantics of the Port Royal Logic, (Routledge Studies in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy), New York: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781351249195 (Scholar)
• Marušić, Jennifer Smalligan, 2014, “Propositions and Judgments in Locke and Arnauld: A Monstrous and Unholy Union?”, Journal of the History of Philosophy, 52(2): 255–280. doi:10.1353/hph.2014.0029 (Scholar)
• Michael, Fred S., 1997, “Why Logic Became Epistemology: Gassendi, Port Royal and the Reformation in Logic”, in Logic and the Workings of the Mind: The Logic of Ideas and Faculty Psychology in Early Modern Philosophy, Patricia A. Easton (ed.), (North American Kant Society Studies in Philosophy 5), Atascadero, CA: Ridgeview, 1–20. (Scholar)
• Miel, Jan, 1969, “Pascal, Port-Royal, and Cartesian Linguistics”, Journal of the History of Ideas, 30(2): 261–271. doi:10.2307/2708438 (Scholar)
• Nadler, Steven N., 1989, Arnauld and the Cartesian Philosophy of Ideas, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
• Nelson, Alan, 2017, “Logic and Knowledge”, in The Routledge Companion to Seventeenth Century Philosophy, Dan Kaufman (ed.), New York: Routledge, ch. 8. (Scholar)
• Ott, Walter, 2002, “Propositional Attitudes in Modern Philosophy”, Dialogue, 41(3): 551–568. doi:10.1017/s0012217300005266 (Scholar)
• Pariente, Jean-Claude, 1985, L’analyse du langage à Port-Royal, Paris: Editions de Minuit.
• Parsons, Terence, 2006, “The Doctrine of Distribution”, History and Philosophy of Logic, 27(1): 59–74. doi:10.1080/01445340500321543 (Scholar)
• Rogers, Brian and Alan Nelson, 2015, “Descartes’ Logic and the Paradox of Deduction”, in The Battle of the Gods and Giants Redux, Patricia Easton and Kurt Smith (eds.), Leiden: Brill, 106–136. doi:10.1163/9789004305922_008 (Scholar)
• Schuurman, Paul, 2003, Ideas, Mental Faculties and Method: The Logic of Ideas of Descartes and Locke and Its Reception in the Dutch Republic, 1630-1750, Leiden: Brill. doi:10.1163/9789047412496 (Scholar)
• Sedgwick, Alexander, 1977, Jansenism in Seventeenth-Century France: Voices from the Wilderness, Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia. (Scholar)
• Spade, Paul Vincent, 1982, “The Semantics of Terms”, in The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy, Norman Kretzmann, Anthony Kenny, and Jan Pinborg (eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 188–196. doi:10.1017/chol9780521226059.011 (Scholar)
• Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin, 1840–48, Port-Royal, 3 volumes, Paris: Renduel. Reprinted Paris: Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 1961–5. (Scholar)
• Stoianovici, Dragan, 1976, “Definite Descriptions in Port-Royal Logic”, Revue Roumaine des Sciences Sociales, Série de Philosophie et Logique, 20: 145–154. (Scholar)
• Van der Schaar, Maria, 2008, “Locke and Arnauld on Judgment and Proposition”, History and Philosophy of Logic, 29(4): 327–341. doi:10.1080/01445340801976532 (Scholar)
• Wahl, Russell, 2008, “Port Royal: The Stirrings of Modernity”, in Handbook of the History of Logic, Volume 2: Mediaeval and Renaissance Logic, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 667–699. doi:10.1016/s1874-5857(08)80034-9 (Scholar)
• –––, 2018, “Syllogism in the Port-Royal Logic”, in The Aftermath of Syllogism: Aristotelian Logical Argument from Avicenna to Hegel, Marco Sgarbi and Matteo Cosci (eds), London: Bloomsbury, ch. 6. (Scholar)
• Watson, Richard A., 1967, “The Port-Royal Logic in the Twentieth Century”, Journal of the History of Philosophy, 5(1): 55–60. doi:10.1353/hph.2008.1281 (Scholar)