David Malet Armstrong Quotes

Australia, Philosopher
June 8, 1926 – May, 13, 2014.

David Malet 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.

To accept Naturalism is to reject such entities as Cartesian minds, private visual and tactual spaces, angelic beings and God.

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- God
- Private
- Spaces
Mathematics is concerned with "all possible worlds."

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The concept of a mental state is primarily the concept of a state of the person apt for bringing about a certain sort of behaviour.

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- Person
- Certain
- Concept