Armstrong, David Malet

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ARMSTRONG, David Malet

ARMSTRONG, David Malet. Australian, b. 1926. Genres: Philosophy. Career: Birkbeck College, University of London, Assistant Lecturer in Philosophy, 1954-55; Melbourne University, Lecturer and Sr. Lecturer in Philosophy, 1956-63; Sydney University, Challis Professor of Philosophy, 1964-91, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, 1992-. Publications: Berkeley's Theory of Vision, 1960; Perception and the Physical World, 1961; Bodily Sensations, 1961; A Materialist Theory of the Mind, 1968; Belief, Truth and Knowledge, 1973; Universals and Scientific Realism, 1978; The Nature of Mind and Other Essays, 1980; What Is a Law of Nature?, 1983; (with N. Malcolm) Consciousness and Causality, 1984; A Combinatorial Theory of Possibility, 1989; Universals, 1989; (with C.B. Martin and U.T. Place) Dispositions; A Debate, 1996; A World of States of Affairs, 1997; The Mind-Body Problem, 1999. EDITOR: Berkeley's Philosophical Writings, 1965; (co-) Locke and Berkeley, 1968. Address: c/o Dept of Philosophy, Sydney University, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia. Online address: [email protected]

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