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en-wikipedia-org-9678		David Malet Armstrong - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	5299	842	66	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.[5] He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008.[6] In 1950, Armstrong formed an Anti-Conscription Committee with David Stove and Eric Dowling, all three former students of John Anderson, the Australian philosopher, who supported conscription and also believed that anti-conscription opinions ought to be suppressed.[13] Those universals match up with the fundamental particles that science tells us about.[22] Armstrong describes his philosophy as a form of scientific realism.[23] Stephen Mumford said that Armstrong's A Materialist Theory of Mind "represents an authoritative statement of Australian materialism and was, and still is, a seminal piece of philosophy".[49]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9678.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9678.txt