COLLIER, ARTHUR. — English philosopher and presbyter of the Anglican Church, born in 1680, died in 1732.
A contemporary of Berkeley, with whom he agrees in the conclusion—although established differently—that the external world does not exist. Philosophically, he depends chiefly on Malebranche.
Principal work: Classis Universalis, or a New Inquiry after Truth, being a Demonstration of the Non-Existence or Impossibility of an External World (1713; published several times).
BIBL.: A. W. Ward-A. R. Waller, The Cambridge History of English Literature, IX, Cambridge 1912, pp. 287–88, 505; Ueberweg, III, pp. 399, 692. Giovanni Muller