A. Biographies of Elisabeth

laze de Bury, Marie Pauline Rose Stewart, 1853, Memoirs of the Princess Palatine, Princess of Bohemia, London: Richard Bentley.

Creese, Anna, 1993, The letters of Elisabeth, Princess Palatine: A seventeenth century correspondence, Princeton: PhD dissertation, Ann Arbor: UMI 9328035.

Godfrey, Elizabeth, 1909, A Sister of Prince Rupert: Elizabeth Princess Palatine and Abbess of Herford, London and New York: John Lane.

Zendler, Beatrice, 1989, “The Three Princesses,” Hypatia, 4.1, 28–63.

B. The Intellectual Historical Context

Adam, Charles, 1917, Descartes et ses amities féminines, Paris: Boivin.

Foucher de Careil, Alexandre, 1862, Descartes et la Princesse Palatine, ou de l’influence du cartésianisme sur les femmes au XVIIe siècle, Paris: Auguste Durand.

Harth, Erica, 1992, Cartesian Women: Versions and Subversions of Rational Discourse in the Old Regime, Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

O’Neill, Eileen, 1998, “Disappearing Ink: Early Modern Women Philosophers and Their Fate in History,” in Philosophy in a Feminist Voice, Janet A Kourany (ed.), Princeton: Princeton University Press.

O’Neill, Eileen, 1999, “Women Cartesians, ‘Feminine Philosophy’ and Historical Exclusion” in Feminist Interpretations of René Descartes, Susan Bordo (ed.), University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press.

Pal, Carol, 2012, Republic of Women: Rethinking the Republic of Letters in the Seventeenth Century, New York/Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Scheibinger, Londa, 1989, The Mind Has No Sex? Women in the Origins of Modern Science, Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

C. Seventeenth-Century Accounts of Causation and Conceptions of the Physical World

Clatterbaugh, Kenneth, 1999, The Causation Debate in Modern Philosophy 1637–1739, New York: Routledge.

Gabbey, Alan, 1990, “The Case of Mechanics: One revolution or many?”, in Reappraisals of the Scientific Revolution, David C. Lindberg and Robert S. Westman (eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Garber, Daniel, 1992, Descartes’ Metaphysical Physics, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Garber, Daniel, 1992, “Descartes’ Physics” in The Cambridge Companion to Descartes, John Cottingham (ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Garber, Daniel, John Henry, Lynn Joy and Alan Gabbey, 1998, “New Doctrines of body and its powers, place and space” in The Cambridge History of Seventeenth Century Philosophy, Daniel Garber and Michael Ayers (eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Nadler, Steven (ed.), 1993, Causation in Early Modern Philosophy, University Park: Penn State University Press.

D. Interpretations of the Descartes-Elisabeth Correspondence

Alanen, Lilli, 2004, “Descartes and Elisabeth: A Philosophical Dialogue?” in Feminist Reflections on the History of Philosophy, Lilli Alanen and Charlotte Witt (eds.), New York/Dordrecht: Kluwer, 193–218.

Broad, Jacqueline, 2002, Women Philosophers of the Seventeenth Century, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Néel, Marguerite, 1946, Descartes et la princess Elisabeth, Paris: Editions Elzévier.

Pellegrin, M-F and D Kolesnik (eds.), 2012, Elisabeth de Boheme face a Descartes: Deux Philosophes, Paris: Vrin.

Petit, Léon, 1969, Descartes et Princesse Elisabeth: roman d’amour vécu, Paris: A-G Nizet.

Rodis-Lewis, Genevieve, 1999, “Descartes et les femmes: l’exceptionnel rapport de la princesse Elisabeth” in Donna Filosofia e cultura nel seicento, Pina Totaro (ed.), Rome: Consiglio Nazionale delle recherche, 155–72.

Wartenburg, Thomas, 1999, “Descartes’s Mood: The Question of Feminism in the Correspondence with Elisabeth” in Feminist Interpretations of René Descartes, Susan Bordo (ed.), University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press.

E. The Real Distinction, Mind-Body Interaction and the Union of Mind and Body in the Correspondence

Alanen, Lilli, 2003, Descartes’s Concept of Mind, Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Broughton, Janet and Ruth Mattern, 1978: “Reinterpreting Descartes on the Notion of the Union of Mind and Body”, Journal of the History of Philosophy, 16(1): 23–32.

Garber, Daniel, 1983, “Understanding Interaction: What Descartes Should Have Told Elisabeth, ” Southern Journal of Philosophy (Supplement), 21: 15–37.

Garber, Daniel and Margaret Wilson, 1998, “Mind-body problems” in The Cambridge History of Seventeenth Century Philosophy, Daniel Garber and Michael Ayers (eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Hatfield, Gary, 1992, “Descartes’ physiology and its relation to his psychology”, in The Cambridge Companion to Descartes, John Cottingham, (ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 335–370.

Mattern, Ruth, 1978, “Descartes’s Correspondence with Elizabeth: Concerning Both the Union and Distinction of Mind and Body, ” in Descartes: Critical and Interpretative Essays, Michael Hooker (ed.), Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

O’Neill, Eileen, 1987, “Mind-Body Interaction and Metaphysical Consistency: A defense of Descartes,” Journal of the History of Philosophy, 25(2): 227–45.

Radner, Daisie, 1971, “Descartes’ Notion of the Union of Mind and Body,” Journal of the History of Philosophy, 9: 159–71.

Richardson, RC, 1982, “The ‘Scandal’ of Cartesian Interactionism,” Mind, 92: 20–37.

Rozemond, Marleen, 1998, Descartes’s Dualism, Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Rozemond, Marleen, 1999, “Descartes on Mind-Body Interaction: What’s the Problem?”, Journal of the History of Philosophy, 37(3): 435–467.

Shapiro, Lisa, 1999, “Princess Elizabeth and Descartes: The Union of Mind and Body and the Practice of Philosophy”, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 7(3): 503–520.

Tollefson, Deborah, 1999, “Princess Elisabeth and the Problem of Mind-Body Interaction,” Hypatia, 14(3): 59–77.

Wilson, Margaret, 1978, Descartes. New York: Routledge.

Yandell, David, 1997, “What Descartes Really Told Elisabeth: Mind-Body Union as a Primitive Notion,” British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 5(2): 249–73.

F. Descartes’s and Elisabeth’s Moral Philosophy

Marshall, John, 1998, Descartes’s Moral Theory, Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Mesnard, Pierre, 1936, Essai sur la morale de Descartes, Paris: Boivin & Cie.

Nye, Andrea, 1996, “Polity and Prudence: The Ethics of Elisabeth, Princess Palatine” in Hypatia’s Daughters, Linda Lopez McAlister (ed.), Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Rodis-Lewis, Genevieve, 1957, La morale de Descartes, Paris: PUF.

Schmaltz, Tad, forthcoming, “Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia on the Cartesian Mind: Interaction, Happiness, Freedom,” in Feminist History of Philosophy: The Recovery and Evaluation of Women’s Philosophical Thought, E. O’Neill and M. Lascano (eds.), Dordrecht: Springer.

Shapiro, Lisa, 2013, “Elisabeth, Descartes, et la psychologie morale du regret”, in Élisabeth de Bohème face à Descartes: Deux Philosophes, M-F Pellegrin and D Kolesnik (eds.), Paris: Vrin, 155–169.

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