George Berkeley

George Berkeley
Portrait of Berkeley by John Smybert, 1727
Era	18th century philosophy
Region	Western Philosophy
School	Idealism, Empiricism
Main interests	Metaphysics, Epistemology, Language, Mathematics, Perception
Notable ideas	Subjective Idealism, The Master Argument
Influences John Locke, Isaac Newton
Influenced David Hume, Edmund Burke, Immanuel Kant, Arthur Schopenhauer, A.J. Ayer
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George Berkeley (12 March 1685 – 14 January 1753), or Bishop Berkeley,^[1] was an Irish bishop and philosopher.

Berkeley was one of the three 'British Empiricists', philosophers around the late 1600s and 1700s who believed in 'empiricism', the philosophy that everything we learn comes through our senses. The other British Empiricists included the Englishman John Locke and Scotsman David Hume.

1. ↑ He was Bishop of Cloyne.