David Malet Armstrong (born 8 July 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 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.
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