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May 13, 2014david armstrong

David Malet Armstrong (8 July 1926 – 13 May 2014)

H/T to Andrew Irvine. DMA’s wiki entry. david armstrongExternalismfunctionalismMaterialismmetaphyicsneurosciencephilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mind

March 15, 2014david armstrong

David Malet Armstrong

My chum Andrew Irvine has a terrific piece “David Armstrong and Australian Materialism” along with a Reader’s Guide in the latest issue of Quadrant. Andrew mentions that Armstrong attended Oakeshott’s History of Political Thought lectures earlier on his career when he had a stint at Birkbeck. I’d forgotten this unlikely connection: Armstrong had mentioned this to…