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David M. Armstrong receiving his doctor of letters (h.c.) at the Nottingham University, UK on 13th December 2007
Name	David Malet Armstrong
Birth	July 8, 1926
School/tradition	Australian Realism, analytic philosophy
Main interests	metaphysics, philosophy of mind
Influences	John Anderson

David Malet Armstrong (born July 8, 1926), often D. M. Armstrong, is 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, and a necessitarian conception of the laws of nature.

• Berkeley's Theory of Vision: A Critical Examination of Bishop Berkeley's Essay towards a New Theory of Vision. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1960.
• Bodily Sensations. London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1962.
• Perception and the Physical World. London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1961. [ISBN 0-7100-3603-5]
• A Materialist Theory of the Mind. London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1968. [ISBN 0-415-10031-3]
• Belief, Truth and Knowledge. London: Cambridge University Press, 1973, [ISBN 0-521-08706-6]
• Universals and Scientific Realism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978. [ISBN 0-521-21741-5]
• The Nature of Mind and Other Essays. Cornell University Press (1981). [ISBN 0801413532 ]
• What is a Law of Nature? Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. [ISBN 0-521-25343-8]
• A Combinatorial Theory of Possibility. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. [ISBN 0-521-37427-8]
• Universals: An Opinionated Introduction. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1989. [ISBN 0-8133-0772-4]
• A World of States of Affairs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. [ISBN 0-521-58064-1]
• The Mind-Body Problem: An Opinionated Introduction. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999. [ISBN 0-8133-9056-7]
• Truth and Truthmakers. Cambridge University Press, 2004. [ISBN 0-521-83832-0]

• "Is Introspective Knowledge Incorrigible?" Philosophical Review 72 (1963), 417-32.
• "Meaning and Communication". Philosophical Review 80 (1971), 427-47.
• (with Peter Forrest) "An Argument against David Lewis' Theory of Possible Worlds". Australasian Journal of Philosophy 62 (1984), 164-8.
• "Classes are States of Affairs". Mind 100 (1991), 189-200.

• "Interview". In Lee Jobling and Catherine Runcie (eds.), Matters of the Mind: Poems, Essays and Interviews in Honour of Leonie Kramer. Sydney: University of Sydney, 2001, 322-332.

• R.J. Bogdan (ed.), D.M. Armstrong Dordrecht: Reidel, 1984. [ISBN 90-277-1657-9]
• John Bacon, Keith Campbell & Lloyd Reinhardt (eds.), Ontology, Causality, and Mind: Essays in Honor of D.M. Armstrong. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. [ISBN 0-521-41562-4]
• J. Franklin, Corrupting the Youth: A History of Philosophy in Australia (Macleay Press, 2003), chs 9, 11, 12,
• S. Mumford, David Armstrong. Acumen, 2007. [ISBN 1844651002]

• Guide to the Papers of David Armstrong
• David Armstrong's Curriculum Vitae
• Armstrong's Pufendorf Lectures 2004