David Malet Armstrong
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| Western Philosophy 20th-century philosophy |
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| Name: | David Armstrong |
| Birth: | July 8, 1926 |
| School/tradition: | Australian Realism, philosophy of mind |
| Main interests: | metaphysics |
| Influences: | John Anderson |
David Malet Armstrong (born July 8, 1926), often D. M. Armstrong, is an Australian philosopher. He is well-known for his work on metaphysics and the philosophy of mind, and for his defence of a factualist ontology, a functionalist theory of the mind, and a necessitarian conception of the laws of nature.
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[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Books
- Berkeley's Theory of Vision: A Critical Examination of Bishop Berkeley's Essay towards a New Theory of Vision. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1960.
- Bodily Sensations. London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1962.
- Perception and the Physical World. London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1961. [ISBN 0-7100-3603-5]
- A Materialist Theory of the Mind. London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1968. [ISBN 0-415-10031-3]
- Belief, Truth and Knowledge. London: Cambridge University Press, 1973, [ISBN 0-521-08706-6]
- Universals and Scientific Realism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978. [ISBN 0-521-21741-5]
- The Nature of Mind and Other Essays. Cornell University Press (1981). [ISBN 0801413532 ]
- What is a Law of Nature? Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. [ISBN 0-521-25343-8]
- A Combinatorial Theory of Possibility. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. [ISBN 0-521-37427-8]
- Universals: An Opinionated Introduction. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1989. [ISBN 0-8133-0772-4]
- A World of States of Affairs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. [ISBN 0-521-58064-1]
- The Mind-Body Problem: An Opinionated Introduction. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999. [ISBN 0-8133-9056-7]
- Truth and Truthmakers. Cambridge University Press, 2004. [ISBN 0-521-83832-0]
[edit] Selected Articles
- "Is Introspective Knowledge Incorrigible?" Philosophical Review 72 (1963), 417-32.
- "Meaning and Communication". Philosophical Review 80 (1971), 427-47.
- (with Peter Forrest) "An Argument against David Lewis' Theory of Possible Worlds". Australasian Journal of Philosophy 62 (1984), 164-8.
- "Classes are States of Affairs". Mind 100 (1991), 189-200.
[edit] Miscellaneous
- "Interview". In Lee Jobling and Catherine Runcie (eds.), Matters of the Mind: Poems, Essays and Interviews in Honour of Leonie Kramer. Sydney: University of Sydney, 2001, 322-332.
[edit] Further reading
- R.J. Bogdan (ed.), D.M. Armstrong Dordrecht: Reidel, 1984. [ISBN 90-277-1657-9]
- John Bacon, Keith Campbell & Lloyd Reinhardt (eds.), Ontology, Causality, and Mind: Essays in Honor of D.M. Armstrong. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. [ISBN 0-521-41562-4]
