Primary Sources:
Arnauld, Antoine, and Lancelot, Claude, General and Rational Grammar: The Port-Royal Grammar, translated by Jacques Rieux and Bernard E. Rollin, The Hague: Mouton, 1975.
This one of Arnauld’s works describes the rigidity of grammar and explains that despite surface level differences among languages, the fundamentals are all the same. Arnauld discusses why it is that language is relatively uniform in terms of the ease of expressing ideas.
Arnauld, Antoine and Nicole, Pierre, Logic or the Art of Thinking, translated by Jill Vance Buroker, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Arnauld’s work on logic describes the transition between specific instances of work and examples to a general concept that can be shared and understood by many without the need for one instance. Arnauld generalizes the understanding of our experiences to everyone and describes the thought about our thinking that makes one rational.
Arnauld, Antoine, On True and False Ideas, translated by Elmar J. Kremer, Lewiston/Queenston: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1990.
This work is a response to Malebranche’s ideas about God and his will. Arnauld strongly opposed Malebranche’s work because he felt it was blasphemous in its assignment of human traits to God.
Secondary Sources
Moreau, Denis, ‘Antoine Arnauld: Cartesian Philosopher?’, in Steven Nadler, Tad M. Schmaltz, and Delphine Antoine-Mahut (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism, Oxford Handbooks (2019;online edn,Oxford Academic, 9 May 2019), https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198796909.013.21
This article discusses the different philosophical understandings and criticisms of Descartes’ works and has a section devoted to Arnauld. This section seems to serve as a history of Arnauld’s works and his philosophical growth.
Kenneth L. Pearce(2019)Locke, Arnauld, and abstract ideas,British Journal for the History of Philosophy,27:1,75-94,DOI: 10.1080/09608788.2018.1509294
This page regards the idealogical inheritance of Locke’s theory of abstraction from Arnauld’s. This piece serves as a dissection and analysis of Arnauld’s work on logic.
Daniel Schmal (2020) Virtual reflection: Antoine Arnauld on Descartes’ concept of conscientia, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 28:4, 714-734, DOI: 10.1080/09608788.2019.1684238
This entry discusses the validity of the differences between Arnauld and Descartes on the concept of self-understanding and conceptualizing the mind.