Nicolas Malebranche was a French Oratorian Catholic priest and rationalist philosopher. In his works, he sought to synthesise the thought of St. Augustine and Descartes, in order to demonstrate the ac
George Berkeley, known as Bishop Berkeley, was an Anglo-Irish philosopher, writer, and clergyman who is regarded as the founder of immaterialism, a philosophical theory he developed which later came t
Portrait by John Smibert, c. 1730
A group portrait of Berkeley and his entourage by John Smibert
Whitehall, Berkeley's home in Middletown, Rhode Island