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David Malet Armstrong
David Malet Armstrong
	; David M. Armstrong receiving his doctor of letters (h.c.) at the Nottingham University, UK on 13th December 2007
Full name	David Malet Armstrong
Born	8 July 1926;
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western Philosophy
School	Australian Realism, analytic philosophy
Main interests	metaphysics, philosophy of mind
	Influenced by

David Malet Armstrong (born 8 July 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, an externalist epistemology, and a necessitarian conception of the laws of nature.

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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]

"Is Introspective Knowledge Incorrigible?" Philosophical Review 72 (1963), 417-32.
"Meaning and Communication". Philosophical Review 80 (1971), 427-47.
"Alan Ker Stout, 1900-1983". Proceedings of the Australian Academy of the Humanities 12 (1982-83): 106-109. http://www.humanities.org.au/Resources/Downloads/Publications/Proceedings/Proc1983.pdf. Retrieved 2009-02-18.
(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.

"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.

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 Honour of D.M. Armstrong. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. [ISBN 0-521-41562-4]^[1]
J. Franklin, Corrupting the Youth: A History of Philosophy in Australia (Macleay Press, 2003), chs 9, 11, 12,
S. Mumford, David Armstrong. Acumen, 2007. [ISBN 1844651002]