Brett, G. S. Gassendi. London: Macmillan and Co., 1908, 307 p.

Focuses mainly on Gassendi's Physics; discusses later views of Gassendi with an emphasis on Leibnitz.

Egan, Howard T. Gassendi's View of Knowledge: A Study of the Epistemological Basis of His Logic. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1984, 179 p.

Examines both Gassendi's Syntagmaand his earlier works to develop an account of his logic based on provisional knowledge.

Hervey, Helen. “Hobbes and Descartes in the Light of Some Unpublished Letters of the Correspondence between Sir Charles Cavendish and Dr. John Pell.” Osiris 10 (1952): 67-90.

Demonstrates the importance of Gassendi in the transmission of Epicureanism to England; reveals the animosity between Hobbes and Gassendi, on one side, and Descartes.

Jones, Howard. Pierre Gassendi, An Intellectual Biography. Nieuwkoop: B. deGraaf, 1981, 320 p.

Offers an account of Gassendi's life and work; denies Gassendi any major importance in the history of philosophy.

Kargon, Robert Hugh. “Descartes, Gassend, and the Newcastle Circle.” In his Atomism in England from Hariot to Newton, pp. 63-76. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966.

Focuses on Gassendi's connection to the so-called Newcastle Circle, including Thomas Hobbes, William Petty, Kenelm Digby, and Margaret Cavendish (Duchess of Newcastle).

Kroll, Richard W. F. “The question of Locke's relation to Gassendi.” Journal of the History of Ideas 45, No. 3 (1984): 339-359.

Reviews arguments concerning Gassendi's influence on Locke's Essay; proposes that Locke's interest in Gassendi was just one part of the influence of Epicureanism.

Lennon, Thomas M. “Pandora; or, Essence and Reference: Gassendi's Nominalist Objection and Descartes' Realist Reply.” In Descartes and His Contemporaries: Meditations, Objections, and Replies, edited by Roger Ariew and Marjorie Grene, pp. 159-181. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.

Considers the debate between Descartes and Gassendi by focusing on the issue of the indivisibility of essences, especially the essence of one's idea of God.

Michael, Fred S., and Michael, Emily. “Corporeal Ideas in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy.” Journal of the History of Ideas 50, No. 1 (1989): 31-48.

Compares theories of ideas in the work of Descartes, Gassendi, Boyle, and Locke; argues the Gassendist account of human thought offers an important alternative to that of Descartes.

_____. “Early Modern Concepts of Mind: Reflecting Substance vs. Thinking Substance.” Journal of the History of Philosophy 27, No.1 (1989): 29-48.

Discusses the importance of the issues of immortality to seventeenth-century psychology; explicates Gassendi's concept of distinct rational and a corporeal souls.

_____. “A note on Gassendi in England.” Notes and Queries [n.s. 37] 235, No. 3 (Sept. 1990): 297-299.

Corrects earlier accounts of the transmission of Gassendi's work into England, detailing the history of their publication and translation into English, to assert Gassendi's status as the founder of modern empiricism.

Osler, Margaret J. “Baptizing Epicurean atomism: Pierre Gassendi on the immortality of the soul.” In Religion, Science, and Worldview: Essays in Honor of Richard S. Westfall, edited by Margaret J. Osler and Paul Lawrence Farber, pp. 163-168. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Discusses Gassendi's views on man's immortality in the context of his project to reconcile Epicureanism with Christianity.

Pancheri, Lillian. “Pierre Gassendi, a forgotten but important man in the history of physics.” American Journal of Physics 46, No. 5 (May 1978): 455-463.

Argues for Gassendi's importance to physics as the first successful defender of the notion of time and space as real, independent entities; shows connections to Galileo and Newton.

Rogers, G. A. J. “Gassendi and the Birth of Modern Philosophy.” Review Essay. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 26, No. 4 (1995): 681-687.

Reviews five French and English publications on Gassendi; considers the increased modern interest in Gassendi and the recognition of his importance.

Sarasohn, Lisa T. “The Ethical and Political Philosophy of Pierre Gassendi.” Journal of the History of Philosophy 20, No. 3 (1982): 239-260.

Explicates Gassendi's Ethicsas one of the first modern assertions of individual liberty and natural rights.

_____. “French Reaction to the Condemnation of Galileo, 1632-1642.” The Catholic Historical Review 74, No. 1 (1988): 34-54.

Sheds light both on Gassendi's connection to Galileo and the European intellectual community and on the importance of his Catholicism.

_____. “Motion and Morality: Pierre Gassendi, Thomas Hobbes, and the Mechanical World-view.” Journal of the History of Ideas 46, No. 3 (1985): 363-379.

Examines the connections between Hobbist and Gassendist theories of motion and their notions of man's nature and society; contrasts Hobbes' determinism with Gassendi's voluntarism.

Turner, A.J. “Pierre Gassendi: Astronomer and Natural Philosopher.” Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 19, No. 2 (1994): 135-139.

Details some of Gassendi's scientific achievements to show how his work in astronomy, geology, and physics provided a foundation for his work in philosophy.