David Malet Armstrong
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Australian philosopher
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David Malet Armstrong's Degrees
- PhD Philosophy University of Melbourne
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, David Malet Armstrong , often D. M. Armstrong, was 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. He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008.
David Malet Armstrong's Published Works
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Published Works
- Belief, Truth And Knowledge (1973) (584)
- Universals: An Opinionated Introduction (1989) (574)
- Truth and Truthmakers (2004) (472)
- What is a law of nature (1983) (419)
- Belief Truth and Knowledge: Belief (1973) (343)
- A theory of universals (1980) (259)
- Universals and scientific realism (1978) (222)
- Identity Through Time (1980) (150)
- Sketch for a Systematic Metaphysics (2010) (108)
- Naturalism, materialism and first philosophy (1978) (107)
- AGAINST “OSTRICH” NOMINALISM: A REPLY TO MICHAEL DEVITT (1980) (96)
- Four Disputes About Properties (2005) (86)
- Meaning and Communication (1971) (78)
- Nominalism and Realism (1978) (70)
- Berkeley's Philosophical Writings (1965) (69)
- In defence of structural universals (1986) (69)
- Dispositions are causes (1969) (53)
- The Causal Theory of Properties: Properties according to Shoemaker, Ellis, and Others (1999) (53)
- A comparison of accuracy in bracket positioning between two techniques--localizing the centre of the clinical crown and measuring the distance from the incisal edge. (2007) (51)
- Root resorption after orthodontic treatment. (2006) (39)
- An argument against David Lewis' theory of possible worlds (1984) (39)
- THE NATURE OF NUMBER (1987) (35)
- The headless woman illusion and the defence of materialism (1968) (35)
- The Nature of Possibility (1986) (32)
- : Channels of Power: The Impact of Television on American Politics (1986) (30)
- A Naturalist Program: Epistemology and Ontology (1999) (28)
- Universals and Scientific Realism@@@Volume I: Nominalism and Realism@@@Volume II: A Theory of Universals. (1979) (27)
- Managing By Storying Around (1992) (26)
- : The Power of the Press: The Birth of American Political Reporting (1987) (26)
- Excess adhesive flash upon bracket placement. A typodont study comparing APC PLUS and Transbond XT. (2007) (26)
- Infinite regress arguments and the problem of universals (1974) (25)
- Difficult cases in the theory of truthmaking (2000) (25)
- II—Does Knowledge Entail Belief? (1970) (24)
- God's Lottery (1989) (22)
- Reply to Heil (2006) (22)
- The Open Door: Counterfactual Versus Singularist Theories of Causation (1999) (22)
- Locke and Berkeley (1968) (20)
- ACTING AND TRYING (1973) (20)
- What Makes Induction Rational (1991) (18)
- The nature of the number (2000) (17)
- Locke and Berkeley: a collection of critical essays (1968) (17)
- Reply to Martin (1997) (16)
- Universals and Scientific Realism Volume 1: Nominalism and Realism; Volume 2: A Theory of Universals. (1982) (16)
- Necessity, Essence and Individuation: A Defence of Conventionalism (1991) (15)
- Accuracy of bracket placement by orthodontists and inexperienced dental students. (2007) (14)
- Reply to van Fraassen (1988) (12)
- Arda Denkel’s Resemblance Nominalism (1991) (12)
- Can a Naturalist Believe in Universals (1988) (10)
- Resemblance Nominalism: A Solution to the Problem of Universals (2003) (10)
- Berkeley's theory of vision : a critical examination of Bishop Berkeley's Essay towards a new theory of vision (1962) (9)
- Towards a Theory of Properties: Work in Progress on the Problem of Universals (1975) (9)
- Materialism, Properties and Predicates (1972) (9)
- Comments on Swoyer and Forge (1987) (8)
- Three types of consciousness. (1979) (8)
- The scope and limits of human knowledge (2006) (8)
- BELIEFS AND DESIRES AS CAUSES OF ACTION: A reply to Donald Davidson (1975) (6)
- Reply to Bird (2005) (6)
- Truthmakers for negative truths, and for truths of mere possibility (2007) (5)
- Reply to Cheyne and Pigden (2006) (5)
- Laws of Nature As Relations Between Universals and As Universals (1982) (5)
- Metaphysics and Supervenience (1982) (5)
- Comment on Ellis (1999) (5)
- Reply to Efird and Stoneham (2006) (4)
- Universals as Attributes (2018) (4)
- Questions about States of Affairs (2009) (4)
- Recent work on the relation of mind and brain (1983) (4)
- Reply to Rosen (1995) (4)
- Beliefs as States (1978) (4)
- Philosophy of Nature: Appendix (2002) (4)
- An investigation of the forces used by clinicians to open spaces with coil springs. (2006) (4)
- Computed tomographic diagnosis of distal radio-ulnar joint disruption. (1984) (3)
- Truth and Truthmakers: Epistemology and methodology (2004) (3)
- Belief Truth and Knowledge: Non-Inferential Knowledge (2) (1973) (3)
- Belief Truth and Knowledge: Truth (1973) (2)
- Reply to Keller (2007) (2)
- Discussion: Berkeley's New Theory of Vision (1956) (2)
- Belief Truth and Knowledge: General Beliefs (1973) (2)
- Universals and Scientific RealismVolume I: Nominalism and RealismVolume II: A Theory of Universals (1980) (2)
- A world of states of affairs: Totality states of affairs (1997) (2)
- A Radiographic Analysis Of Apical Root Resorption After Orthodontic Treatment With Straight Wire Speed And Tip-Edge Appliances (2009) (2)
- Belief Truth and Knowledge: Knowledge Entails True Belief (1973) (2)
- Are Dispositions Ultimate? Reply to Franklin (1988) (2)
- Truth and Truth-Making: The general theory of truth-making (2008) (2)
- Qualia Ain't in the Head Review of Ten Problems of Consciousness: A Representational Theory of the Phenomenal Mind by Michael Tye (1995) (2)
- Truth and Truthmakers: Time (2004) (1)
- Searles's Neo-Cartesian Theory of Consciousness (1991) (1)
- What Makes Induction Rational? (1991) (1)
- Truth and Truthmakers: The general theory of truthmaking (2004) (1)
- Incorrigibility, materialism and causation (1976) (1)
- Reacting to Meinong (1995) (1)
- Reply to Smart (2006) (1)
- What is a Law of Nature?: Laws of nature as relations between universals (1983) (1)
- Vesey on bodily sensations (1964) (1)
- Perception and the Physical World.Berkeley's Theory of Vision (1962) (0)
- The unity of the world (1997) (0)
- Belief Truth and Knowledge: The Nature of Belief (1973) (0)
- Belief Truth and Knowledge: Concepts and Ideas (1973) (0)
- What is a Law of Nature?: Probabilistic laws (1983) (0)
- Particulars as Bundles of Universals (2018) (0)
- 2009 Fall - Honors List (2009) (0)
- Book Review: Raymond Bradley. The nature of all being: A study of Wittgenstein's modal atomism. (1992) (0)
- Belief Truth and Knowledge: Non-Inferential Knowledge (1) (1973) (0)
- What is a Law of Nature?: Functional laws (1983) (0)
- Belief Truth and Knowledge: Propositions (1973) (0)
- What is a Law of Nature?: Works cited (1983) (0)
- KNOWLEDGE AND INFERENCE (2002) (0)
- Numbers and classes (2004) (0)
- Authors’ response (1999) (0)
- Berkeley's Theory of Vision: A Critical Examination of Bishop Berkeley's Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision. (1965) (0)
- Truth and Truthmakers: Properties, relations and states of affairs (2004) (0)
- Berkeley: A Collection of Critical Essays (1988) (0)
- Comment on Smart (1999) (0)
- Belief Truth and Knowledge: Existential Beliefs (1973) (0)
- 3. Comments on Grossmann’s “The Existence of the World” (2009) (0)
- Truth and Truthmakers: Truthmakers for modal truths, part 1: possibility (2004) (0)
- Reply to Friesen (2006) (0)
- The Causal Theory—Armstrong and Lewis (2018) (0)
- David Lewis, 1941-2001 (2002) (0)
- Critique of the Regularity theory (1): The problem of accidental uniformities (1983) (0)
- Belief Truth and Knowledge: Inferential and General Knowledge (1973) (0)
- Book Reviews (2003) (0)
- Hume's Bundle Dualism (2018) (0)
- The heart of Berkeley's metaphysics? a reply to ERNEST SOSA (2016) (0)
- SIX ONTOLOGICAL TOPICS: A DIALOGUE WITH (2011) (0)
- SIX ONTOLOGICAL TOPICS: A DIALOGUE WITH (2011) (0)
- Ryle's Rejection of Two Realms (2018) (0)
- 13. The Nature of Mind (1980) (0)
- Expanding and contracting the world (1989) (0)
- Truth and Truthmakers: Truthmakers for modal truths, part 2: necessity (2004) (0)
- Comments on Lierse (1996) (0)
- Belief Truth and Knowledge: Further Considerations about Belief (1973) (0)
- The Nature of Tradition (1976) (0)
- What is a Law of Nature?: Critique of the Regularity theory (3) (1983) (0)
- Belief Truth and Knowledge: Belief and Language (1973) (0)
- A world of states of affairs: Relations (1997) (0)
- Some preliminary doctrines (1997) (0)
- A Combinatorial theory of possibility: Preface (1989) (0)
- States of Affairs (2020) (0)
- A world of states of affairs: Number (1997) (0)
- Truth and Truthmakers: An introduction to truthmakers (2004) (0)
- Truth and Truthmakers: Causes, laws and dispositions (2004) (0)
- A Discussion with D.M. Armstrong about the Nexus between Philosophy and Psychiatry (2002) (0)
- A Combinatorial theory of possibility: Final questions: logic (1989) (0)
- The Rational Disciplines: Logic and Mathematics1 (2010) (0)
- THE ATTRIBUTE THEORY (2002) (0)
- A Combinatorial theory of possibility: Appendix: Tractarian Nominalism, by Brian Skyrms (1989) (0)
- I. Index of Names and Subjects (1979) (0)
- Non-Naturalist theories of possibility (1989) (0)
- THE WILL (1) (2002) (0)
- A Combinatorial theory of possibility: Works cited (1989) (0)
- Reply to Swinburne (2006) (0)
- Reacting to Dispositionalism (2010) (0)
- A Combinatorial theory of possibility: Supervenience (1989) (0)
- What is a Law of Nature?: Can the Regularity theory be sophisticated? (1983) (0)
- Problems about “ Intransitive ” Sensations (2007) (0)
- Possibility, Actuality, Necessity (2010) (0)
- The Dental Hygienist: A Study of the Employment Patterns of Registered Dental Hygienists in Southern Maryland. (1977) (0)
- What is a Law of Nature?: Are the laws of nature necessary or contingent? (1983) (0)
- Critique of the Regularity theory (2) (1983) (0)
- Critical Discussion of David Armstrong, Truth and Truthmakers (2005) (0)
- A world of states of affairs: References (1997) (0)
- Belief Truth and Knowledge: Works referred to (1973) (0)
- Higher-order entities, negation and causation (1989) (0)
- Truth and Truthmakers: Negative truths (2004) (0)
- Possibility in a simple world (1989) (0)
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