Professor
David Malet Armstrong
(
–
)
1926
2014
University of Sydney
;
New South Wales, Australia
Philosopher; Educator
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Philosophy
Elected
2008
International Honorary Member
Emeritus Professor. Interests in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and theory of knowledge. Defended a materialist, factualist ontology, a functionalist philosophy of mind, a reliabilist theory of knowledge and a realist, non-reductive view of laws of nature. Principal publications include A World of States of Affairs (1997) and Truth and Truthmakers (2004).
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