Curriculum Vitae

David Malet Armstrong

Personal
Born: July 8, 1926, in Melbourne, Australia.
Son of Commodore J.M.Armstrong, C.B.E., D.S.O., U.S. Navy
Cross, Royal Australian Navy, and Philippa Suzanne Armstrong.
Married:
(1) 1950, Madeleine Annette Haydon (no children)
(2) 1982, Jennifer Mary de Bohun Clark (step-children).
Served in Royal Australian Navy as Ordinary and Able
Seaman, 1945-6.

Current Address:
206 Glebe Point Road
Glebe, Sydney
New South Wales
Australia 2037
Tel: +612-9660-1435
Fax: +612-9660-8846
E-mail: david.armstrong@philosophy.usyd.edu.au

Also
Dept. of Philosophy
University of Sydney
New South Wales
Australia 2006
Tel: + 612-9351-2466
Fax: + 612-9351-6660

Honours
Officer of the Order of Australia (AO), Jan. 26th,1993, for services to Philosophy.
Fellow of Australian Academy of the Humanities (F.A.H.A., Foundation Fellow,1969).
Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), July 2nd., 1998.

Education

  1. Dragon School, Oxford, England.
  2. Geelong Grammar School, Victoria, Australia.
  3. University of Sydney, 1947-50, B.A, First Class Honours in Philosophy, with University Medal.
  4. Oxford University, 1952-54, B.Phil.
  5. University of Melbourne, 1960, Ph.D.

Teaching

  1. Assistant Lecturer, Birkbeck College, London University, 1954-5.
  2. Lecturer/Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne, 1956-63.
  3. Challis Professor of Philosophy, University of Sydney, 1964-91.
  4. Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Sydney, 1992-.

Visiting Appointments

  1. Assistant Professor, Yale University, 1962.
  2. Professor, Stanford University, 1965, 1968.
  3. Professor, University of Texas at Austin, 1980, 1989.
  4. Professor, University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1985.
  5. Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of California at Irvine, 1992.
  6. Distinguished Scholar in Residence, Franklin and Marshall College, 1993, 1994, 2000.
  7. Visiting Professor, University of Graz, Austria, 1995.
  8. Visiting Professor, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, 1997.
  9. Visiting Professor, Yale University, 1998.
  10. Visiting Professor, University of Connecticut at Storrs, 1999.
  11. Kemp Distinguished Professor, Davidson College 2002

Entries in Philosophical Works of Reference

  1. 1991. Handbook of Metaphysics and Ontology. Ed. H. Burkhardt and Barry Smith, Munich [?], 54-5.
  2. 1992. A Dictionary of Philosophical Quotations. Ed. A.J. Ayer and Jane O'Grady, Oxford: Blackwell, 22.
  3. 1995. A Companion to Metaphysics. Ed. Jaegwon Kim and Ernest Sosa. Oxford: Blackwell. 31-2 (Keith Campbell).
  4. 1995. The Oxford Companion to Philosophy. Ed. Ted Honderich. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 58.
  5. 1996. A Dictionary of Philosophy. Ed. Thomas Mautner, Oxford: Blackwell. 33-4 (Philosophical self-portrait).
  6. 1998. Routledge Encycopaedia of Phiosophy, 10 vols. Ed. Edward Craig. London: Routledge. Vol.1, 441-3 (Frank Jackson).
  7. 1999. The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, 2nd. ed. Ed Robert Audi, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 52 (E.J. Lowe).

Archives

The National Library of Australia (Canberra) holds the majority of DMA’s papers up to 1980, and further transfers to the Library have been made during 1999-2000, and in 2001. A catalogue of the material held is available on the Library’s Home Page on the Internet: http://www.nla.gov.au[MS 9363]

Audio/visual record

  1. Audio. DMA talking to Edgar Waters, Sydney, Dec.10/11, 1986. 5 tapes + typescript. Held by DMA & National Library of Australia.
  2. Video. DMA talking with Herbert Hochberg on the development of his philosophical views. Austin, Texas, Dec.1989. 1 tape. Held by DMA.
Publications
Books
  1. 1960. Berkeley's Theory of Vision: A Critical Examination of Bishop Berkeley's Essay towards a New Theory of Vision. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.
    1. 1988. Reprinted in series The Philosophy of George Berkeley, Vol.6. Ed. George Pitcher. New York and London: Garland Publishing Inc.
    2. 1992. Reproduced in 'Talking books' for the visually handicapped. Peterborough, England: Royal National Institute for the Blind.
  2. 1961. Perception and the Physical World. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
    1. 1966. In Spanish as La Percepción y el Mundo Físico. Trans.Pedro Garcia Ferrero. Madrid: Editorial Tecnos.
  3. 1962. Bodily Sensations. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
  4. 1968. A Materialist Theory of the Mind. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
    1. 1993. Paperback edition, with a new Preface by DMA. London: Routledge.
    2. 1982. In Polish as Materialistyczna Teoria Umyslu. Trans. Halina Krahelska. Warszawa: Pan´stowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe.
    3. 1988. 'Perception and Belief'. Extracted from the above, in Perceptual Knowledge. Ed. Jonathan Dancy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 127-144.
    4. 1994. 'Introspection'. Extracted from the above, in Self-Knowledge. Ed.Quassim Cassam Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    5. 1996. In Japanese. Trans. Noboru Suzuki. Tokyo: Keiso Publishing Co.
    6. Forthcoming. In German, extracted from the above (pp. 209-212, 216-226) in Philosophy of Perception. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag.
  5. 1973. Belief, Truth and Knowledge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
    1. 1978. 'Beliefs as States'. Extracted from the above, in Dispositions. Ed. Raimo Tuomela. Dordrecht: Reidel, 411-425.
    2. 1990. 'The Infinite Regress of Reasons'. Extracted from the above in The Experience of Philosophy. Ed. Daniel Kolak & Raymond Martin. Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 168-74.
    3. 2000. ‘The thermometer-model of knowledge’. Extracted from the above in Knowledge: Readings in Contemporary Epistemology. Ed. Sven Bernecker & Fred Dretske. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 72-85.
  6. 1978. Universals and Scientific Realism, (2 vols.: Nominalism and Realism; and A Theory of Universals ). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
    1. 1988. In Spanish as Los Universales y el Realismo Científico. Trans. J.A. Robles, México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
    2. 1999. Reprint of Vol. 2, Ch. 13, ‘Relations between Predicates and Universals’. In Analytic Metaphysics, 6 vols. Ed. Michael Tooley. Garland Publishing Inc. Vol.3: The Nature of Properties, 1-12.
    3. 1999. Reprint of Vol. 2, Ch. 14, ‘Rejection of Disjunctive and Negative Universals’. in Analytic Metaphysics, 6 vols. Ed. Michael Tooley. Garland Publishing Inc. Vol.3: The Nature of Properties, 13-23.
  7. 1980. The Nature of Mind, and other Essays. St.Lucia, Queensland: Queensland University Press; Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press (1981); Brighton, Sussex: Harvester Press (1981).
  8. 1983. What is a Law of Nature? Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  9. 1984. (With Norman Malcolm.) Consciousness and Causality: A Debate on the Nature of Mind. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
    1. 1986. In Japanese. Trans. Hiroshi Kurosaki. Tokyo: Sangyo Tosho.
  10. 1989. Universals: an Opinionated Introduction. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press.
  11. 1989. A Combinatorial Theory of Possibility. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  12. 1996. (With C.B. Martin and U.T. Place.) Dispositions: A Debate. Ed. Tim Crane. London: Routledge.
  13. 1997. A World of States of Affairs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Hard & pbk.
    1. 1999. Review Symposium. ‘Author’s response’. Metascience, 8 no.1, 85-91.
  14. 1999.The Mind-body Problem: an Opinionated Introduction. Westview Press. Hard &pbk.
    1. Forthcoming. Translated into Korean by Jong-ho Ha.
Books, etc. edited
  1. 1965. Berkeley's Philosophical Writings. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co.; London: Collier-Macmillan.
  2. 1968. (With C.B.Martin.) Locke and Berkeley: A Collection of Critical Essays. London: Macmillan; New York: Doubleday; London: University of Notre Dame Press.
  3. 1994. (With Brian Ellis.) Advisory editors for The Monist, 77, Number 1. General Topic: The Ontology of Scientific Realism.

Critical studies

  1. 1984. D. M. Armstrong, (Profiles, Vol. 4). Ed. Radu J. Bogdan. Dordrecht: Reidel. Contains by D.M.A.: 'Self-Profile'; 'Replies' and 'Bibliography of D. M. Armstong' with abstracts of books and major articles up to 1983.
    1. 1983. A version of the 'Self-Profile' appears as 'An Intellectual Autobiography' in two parts in Quadrant, 27, Jan.-Feb., 89-102; and Mar., 68-78.
  2. 1993. Ontology, Causality, and Mind: Essays in Honour of D.M.Armstrong. Ed. John Bacon, Keith Campbell and Lloyd Reinhardt. With replies to contributors by D.M.A., and Bibliography of D.M.A. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
    1. 1999. Extract from the above: ‘Reply to Mellor’. In Analytic Metaphysics, 6 vols. Ed. Michael Tooley. Garland Publishing Inc. Vol.3: The Nature of Properties, 39-44.
Articles
  1. 1954. 'Berkeley's Puzzle about the Water that seems both Hot and Cold'. Analysis, 15, 44-6.
  2. 1955. 'Illusions of Sense'. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 33, 88-106.
  3. 1963. 'Absolute and Relative Motion' Mind, 72, 209-223.
  4. 1963 .'Is Introspective Knowledge Incorrigible?' Philosophical Review, 72, 417-432.
    1. 1991. Reprinted in The Nature of Mind. Ed. David M. Rosenthal. New York: Oxford University Press, 126-32.
  5. 1965. 'The Freedom of the Will'. The Pluralist (Sydney), 2, 21-5.
  6. 1965. 'A Theory of Perception'. In Scientific Psychology, ed. B. Wolman and E. Nagel. New York: Basic Books, 489-505.
  7. 1965. (With R.N.Spann.) 'The Knopfelmacher Case'. Minerva, 3, 334-344.
  8. 1966. 'The Nature of Mind'. Arts, (Proceedings of The Sydney University Arts Association), 3, 37-48.
    1. 1968. Reprinted (abridged) in Question, 1, 70-82.
    2. 1970. Reprinted in Mind/Brain Identity. Ed. C.V.Borst. London: Macmillan, 67-79.
    3. 1980. Reprinted in Readings in Philosophy of Psychology, Vol.1. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 191-9.
    4. 1980. Reprinted in The Nature of Mind, q.v., 1-15.
    5. 1983. Reprinted in Persons and their World. Ed. Jeffrey Olen. New York: Random House, 259-64.
    6. 1991. Reprinted in Metaphysics: Classic and Contemporary Readings. Ed. Ronald C. Hoy and L. Nathan Oaklander. Belmont: California: Wadsworth, 234-241.
    7. 1993. Reprinted in Introduction to Philosophy: Classic and Contemporary Readings. Ed. John Perry and Michael Bratman, 2nd. edition, 314-321
  9. 1966. 'The Politics of Liberty'. Honi Soit (Sydney University), April 21st and 28th.
    1. 1969. Reprinted in Solidarity (Manila), 4 no.2, Feb., 21-8.
  10. 1967. 'The Humphreys Affair'. The Bulletin (Sydney), May 13, 30.
  11. 1968. 'The Headless Woman Illusion and the Defence of Materialism'. Analysis, 29, 48-9.
  12. 1968. 'The Secondary Qualities'. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 46, 225-41.
  13. 1969. 'Colour Realism and the Argument from Microscopes'. In Contemporary Philosophy in Australia. Ed. R. Brown and C.D. Rollins. London: Allen and Unwin, 119-31.
    1. 1980. Reprinted in The Nature of Mind, q.v., 104-118.
  14. 1969. 'Does Knowledge Entail Belief?'. Proceedings of The Aristotelian Society, 70, 21-36.
  15. 1970. 'The Limits of Protest'. Sydney Morning Herald, April 17th., 2.
  16. 1971. 'Meaning and Communication'. Philosophical Review, 80, 427-447.
    1. 1979. In German, in Handlung,Kommunication, Bedeutung. Ed. G. Meggle. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag, 112-136.
  17. [DATE?] 'The Nature of our Democracy'. The Union Recorder (Sydney University), 51, no. 23, Sept. 23, 3-5.
    1. 1971. Reprinted in The Australian Liberal, Nov., 5-6.
    2. 1972. Reprinted in Dialectic (Journal of the Newcastle University Philosophy Club), 7, 1-9.
  18. 1972. 'Materialism, Properties and Predicates'. The Monist, 56, 163-76.
  19. 1973. 'Acting and Trying'. Philosophical Papers, 2, 1-15.
    1. 1980. Reprinted in The Nature of Mind, q.v., 68-88.
  20. 1973. 'Continuity and Change in Philosophy'. Quadrant, 17 (Sept.-Dec.), 19-23.
  21. 1973. 'Epistemological Foundations for a Materialist theory of the Mind'. Philosophy of Science, 40, 178-193.
    1. 1973. Reprinted in Dialectic (Journal of the Newcastle University Philosophy Club), 9, 1-19.
    2. 1980. Reprinted in The Nature of Mind, q.v., 32-54.
  22. 1973. 'Language and Mind'. In Linguistics and Mind. Ed. D. Douglas. Sydney: Sydney University Extension Board, 1-10.
  23. 1974. 'Infinite Regress Arguments and the Problem of
  24. Universals'. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 52, 191-201.
    1. 1980. In Spanish, in El Problema de los Universales. Ed. and trans. J. A. Robles. México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 203-216.
  25. 1975. 'Towards a Theory of Properties: Work in Progress on the Problem of Universals'. Philosophy, 50, 145-55.
  26. 1976. 'Immediate Perception'. In Essays in Memory of Imre Lakatos , (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 39). Ed. R.S.Cohen, P.K.Feyerabend and M. Wartofsky. Dordrecht: Reidel, 23-35.
    1. 1980. Reprinted in The Nature of Mind, q.v., 119-131.
  27. 1976. 'Modern Materialism and the Mind'. Proceedings of the Russellian Society (Sydney University), 1, 44-55.
  28. 1976. 'The Nature of Tradition'. In Liberty and Politics. Ed. O. Harries, Sydney: Worker's Educational Association of N.S.W., and Pergamon Press (Australia), 7-19.
    1. 1980. Reprinted in The Nature of Mind, q.v., 89-103.
  29. 1977. 'The Causal Theory of the Mind'. Neue Hefte für Philosophie. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 11, 82-95.
    1. 1980. Reprinted in The Nature of Mind, q.v., 16-31.
    2. 1990. Reprinted in Mind and Cognition, a Reader. Ed. W.G.Lycan. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 37-47.
    3. 1991. Reprinted in The Nature of Mind. Ed. David M.Rosenthal. New York: Oxford University Press, 181-8.
    4. 1995. Reprinted in Modern Philosophy of Mind. Ed. William Lyons. London: Everyman, 175-190.
  30. 1977. 'On Metaphysics'. In "Fifty Years of John Anderson". Quadrant, 21 (May), 65-9.
  31. 1977. 'The Problem of Universals'. Proceedings of the Russellian Society (Sydney University), 2, 11-22.
  32. 1977. 'Naturalism, Materialism and First Philosophy'. In Ist Systematische Philosophie Moglich?. Proceedings of the Stuttgarter Hegel-Kongress 1975 Ed. Dieter Henrich. Bonn: Bouvier Verlag Herbert Grundmann, 411-425.
    1. 1977. In above volume: 'Remarks read at the Conference', 427.
    2. 1978. Reprinted in Philosophia, 8, 261-76.
    3. 1978. Reprinted in Dialectic (Journal of the Newcastle University Philosophy Club), 12, 1-14.
    4. 1980. Reprinted in The Nature of Mind, q.v., 149-65.
    5. 1995. Reprinted, with a postscript by DMA: " ‘Naturalism, Materialism and First Philosophy’ Reconsidered", in Contemporary Materialism: A Reader. Ed. Paul K. Moser and J.D. Trout. London: Routledge, 35-50.
  33. 1978. 'What is Consciousness?'. Proceedings of the Russellian Society (Sydney University), 3, 65-76.
    1. 1980. Reprinted in The Nature of Mind, q.v., 55-67.
    2. 1997 Reprinted in The Nature of Consciousness: Philosophical and Scientific Debates. Ed. Ned Block, Owen Flanagan, Güven Güzeldere, Bradford Books. 721-28.
  34. 1979. 'Perception, Sense Data and Causality'. In Perception and Identity: Essays Presented to A.J.Ayer with His Replies to them. Ed. G.F.Macdonald. London: Macmillan, 84-98.
    1. 1980. Reprinted in The Nature of Mind, q.v., 132-48.
  35. 1979. 'Three Types of Consciousness'. In Brain and Mind , Ciba Foundation Series 69 (New series). Amsterdam: Excerpta Medica, 235-241.
  36. 1979. 'Laws of Nature'. Proceedings of the Russellian Society (Sydney University), 4, 46-61.
  37. 1980. 'Identity through Time'. In Time and Cause: Essays Presented to Richard Taylor. Ed. Peter van Inwagen, Dordrecht: Reidel, 67-78.
    1. 1991. Reprinted in Metaphysics: Classic and Contemporary Readings. Ed. Ronald C.Hoy and L. Nathan Oaklander. California: Wadsworth, 147-54.
    2. 1999. Reprinted in Analytical Metaphysics, 6 vols. Ed. Michael Tooley. Garland Publishing Inc., vol.4, Particulars, Actuality, and Identity over Time, 133-144.
  38. 1980. 'Against Ostrich Nominalism: A Reply to Michael Devitt'. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 61, 440-9.
    1. 1997. Reprinted in Properties, Oxford Readings in Philosophy. Ed. D.H. Mellor and Alex Oliver. Ed Oxford: Oxford University Press, 101-111.
    2. 1999. Reprinted in Analytical Metaphysics, 6 vols. Ed. Michael Tooley. Garland Publishing Inc., vol. 3: The Nature of Properties, 324-333.
  39. 1980. 'Letter from Prague'. Quadrant, 24 (Dec.), 25-7.
  40. 1982. 'Laws of Nature as Relations between Universals,and as Universals'. Philosophical Topics, 13, 7-24.
    1. 1982. Reprinted in Dialectic (Journal of the Newcastle University Philosophy Club), 19, 17-36.
  41. 1982. 'Metaphysics and Supervenience'. Crítica, 14, 3-18.
    1. 1984. In German, with title 'Naturalistische Metaphysik', in Moderne Naturphilosophie Ed. Bernulf Kanitscheider. Würzburg: Könighausen & Neumann, 83-94.
  42. 1983. 'Recent Work on the Relation of Mind and Brain'. In Contemporary Philosophy: A New Survey, Vol. 1V, Philosophy of the Mind. Ed. G. Fløistad. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 45-79.
  43. 1983. 'Do things have temporal parts?'. Proceedings of the Russellian Society (Sydney University), 8, 25-35.
    1. 1983. Reprinted in Cogito (Journal of the University of New South Wales Socratic Society) 1, no.5, 57-68.
  44. 1984. (With Peter Forrest.) 'An Argument against David Lewis' Theory of Possible Worlds'. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 62, 164-8.
    1. 1999. Reprinted in Analytical Metaphysics, 6 vols. Ed. Michael Tooley. Garland Publishing Inc., vol.5, Necessity and Possibility: The Metaphysics of Modality, 138-142.
  45. 1985. 'A Polish Diary'. Quadrant, 29 (Aug), 52-7.
    1. 1986. Reprinted in The Salisbury Review, 4 (Jan.), 20-5.
  46. 1986. 'Baza Epistemica', Roumanian translation, by Sorin Vieru, of 'The Epistemic Base' (not published in English). Stiintele Sociale si Politice Peste Hotare, 1, Bucuresti,41-65.
  47. 1987. 'The Nature of Possibility'. Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 16, 575-94.
    1. 1999. Reprinted in Analytic Metaphysics, 6 vols. Ed. Michael Tooley. Garland Publishing Inc, vol. 5, Necessity and Possibility: The Metaphysics of Modality, 195-214.
  48. 1987. 'Smart and the Secondary Qualities'. In Metaphysics and Morality: Essays in Honour of J.J.C. Smart. Ed. Philip Pettit, Richard Sylvan and Jean Norman. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1-15.
    1. 1997. Reprinted in Readings on Color, Vol. 1. Ed. Alex Byrne. Cambridge, Mass: Bradford Book, MIT Press, 33-46.
  49. 1987. (With Peter Forrest.) 'The Nature of Number'. Philosophical Papers, 16, 165-86.
  50. 1988. 'Are Quantities Relations?: A Reply to Bigelow and Pargetter'. Philosophical Studies, 54, 305-16.
  51. 1988. 'Can a Naturalist believe in Universals?'. In Science in Reflection, Vol.3. Ed. Edna Ullmann-Margalit. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 103-115.
    1. 1986. In Roumanian, trans. Sorin Vieru, 'Naturalismul si convingerea in existenta universalor'. Stiintele Sociale si Politice Peste Hotare, 2, Bucuresti, 59-76.
    2. 1996 In Polish, trans. Tomasz Bigaj. In Co Istnieje? (What exists?). Tom 1, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo PETIT, 190-201.
  52. 1988. Contribution to Symposium: 'The Role of the Basics and the Classical Disciplines in Education'. Ed. Don Moore. P.A.C.T. Occasional Education Series, 2, 17-20.
  53. 1989. 'C.B.Martin, Counterfactuals, Causality, and Conditionals'. In Cause, Mind, and Reality, Essays Honoring C.B.Martin. Ed. John Heil. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 7-15.
  54. 1989. 'My Second Polish Diary'. Quadrant, 33 (Nov.), 6-13.
  55. 1989. (With Storrs McCall.) 'God's Lottery'. Analysis, 49, 223-4.
  56. 1991 (Pbk.1993). 'Intentionality, Perception, and Causality: Reflections on John Searle's Intentionality'. In John Searle and his Critics. Ed.Ernest Lepore and Robert van Gulick. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 149-58.
  57. 1991. 'Classes are States of Affairs'. Mind, 100, 189-200.
  58. 1991. (With Adrian Heathcote.) 'Causes and Laws'. Noûs, 25, 63-73.
  59. 1991. 'What makes Induction Rational?'. Dialogue, 30, 503-511.
    1. 1995. Reprinted in The Problem of Rationality in Science and its Philosophy. Ed. J.Misiek. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 45-54.
  60. 1991. (With U.T.Place.) 'A Debate on Dispositions, Their Nature and Their Role in Causation: Part 1: The Armstrong-Place Debate. Conceptus , 25, nr.66, 3-44.
  61. 1992. 'Properties'. In Language, Truth and Ontology. Ed. Kevin Mulligan. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 14-27.
    1. 1997. Reprinted in Properties, (Oxford Readings in Philosophy). Ed. D.H. Mellor and Alex Oliver. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 160-172.
  62. 1992/3. (With U.T. Place and C.B. Martin) 'A Debate on Dispositions, Their Nature and Their Role in Causation: Part 2: The Martin-Armstrong-Place Debate'. Conceptus, 26, nr.68/9, 3-58.
  63. 1993. 'A Week in Riga'. Quadrant , 37 (Dec.), 24-29.
  64. 1993. 'A World of States of Affairs'. In Philosophical Perspectives, 7. Ed. James E. Tomberlin. Atascadero, California: Ridgeview Publishing Company, 429-440.
    1. 1996. Reprinted in Formal Ontology. Ed. Roberto Poli and Peter Simons. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 159-171.
  65. 1995. 'Kategorialistische und dispositionalistische Theorien von Eigenschaften: Eine Gegenüberstellung' ['Categoricalist versus Dispositionalist accounts of Properties']. In Metaphysik. Neue Zugänge zu alten Fragen. Ed. J.L. Brandl, A. Hieke and P.M. Simons. St. Augustin: Academia Verlag, 71-85.
  66. 1996. 'Reacting to Meinong'. In Meinong und die Gegenstandstheorie. Ed. Rudolf Haller. Grazer Philosophische Studien, Vol.50, Amsterdam: Rodopi B.V., 615-627.
  67. 1997. 'Categoricalist versus Dispositionalist Accounts of Properties'. Acta Analytica, 15, 7-19.
  68. 1997 'Singular Causes and Laws of Nature'. In The Cosmos of Science: Essays of Exploration. Ed. John Earman and John D. Norton. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 498-514.
  69. 1999. ‘The Causal theory of Properties: Properties according to Shoemaker, Ellis and others’. Philosophical Topics, 26, No. 1 & 2 Spring & Fall, 25-37.
    1. 2000. Reprinted, with an added final paragraph, in Metaphysica, 1, 5-20.
  70. 1999. 'The Open Door: Counterfactual vs. Singularist Theories of Causation'. In Causation and Laws of Nature(Australasian Studies in the history and Philosophy of Science), ed. Howard Sankey. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 175-85.
  71. 1999. ‘A Naturalist Program: Epistemology and Ontology’. Eleventh Annual Romanell lecture on Philosophical Naturalism. The Proceedings and Addresses of The American Philosophical Association, 73:2, 77-89.
  72. 2000. ‘Difficult Cases in the Theory of Truthmaking’. The Monist, 83 no.1, 150-160.
  73. 2001. ‘Going through the Open Door again: Counterfactual versus Singularist Theories of Causation’. In Reality and Humean Supervenience: Essays on the Philosophy of David Lewis, eds. Gerhard Preyer and Frank Siebelt. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 163-76.
    1. Forthcoming. Reprinted in a collection: Causation and Counterfactuals, eds. John Collins, Ned Hall, and Laurie Paul, MIT Press.
  74. 2001. 'Black Swans: The formative influences in Australian philosophy’. In Rationality and Irrationality, (Proceedings of the 23rd. International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria, 2000) ed. B. Brogaard & B. Smith, Wien: öbvahpt, 11-17.
  75. 2002. ‘Truths and Truthmakers’. In What is Truth?, ed. Richard Schantz, Berlin & New York: Walter de Gruyter, 27-37.
  76. Forthcoming. ‘Truthmakers for Modal Truths’. In Real Metaphysics: Essays in Honour of Hugh Mellor, eds. Hallvard Lillehammer and Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra. London: Routledge.
  77. Forthcoming. ‘How do Particulars stand to Universals?’. Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, ed. Dean Zimmerman.
  78. Forthcoming. ‘A Metaphysics of States of Affairs’. In Chinese in Contemporary British and American Philosophers. Beijing: People’s Press.
Discussions and Notes
  1. 1956. 'Discussion: Berkeley's New Theory of Vision’. Journal of the History of Ideas , 17, 127-9.
  2. 1959. 'Discussion: Mr Arthedeva and Naive Realism'. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 37, 67-70.
  3. 1963. 'Discussion: Max Deutscher and Perception'. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 41, 246-9.
  4. 1963. 'Discussion: Vesey on Sensations of Heat'. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 41, 352-62.
  5. 1964. 'Discussion: Vesey and Bodily Sensations'. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 42, 247-8.
  6. 1968. 'Student Activism in a Free Society'. Vestes (Sydney), 11 (July), 138-40.
  7. 1969. 'Dispositions are Causes' (A reply to Roger Squires). Analysis, 30, 138-40.
  8. 1975. 'Beliefs and Desires as Causes of Action: A Reply to Donald Davidson'. Philosophical Papers, 4, 1-7.
  9. 1975. 'Fission at Sydney University'. The International Council on the Future of the University: Newsletter, 2 (Jan), pp. 1,10,.14.
  10. 1975. 'Those Sydney Blues'. The University of Sydney Archives: Record, 3 (Sept.), 125-7.
  11. 1976. 'Incorrigibility, Materialism and Causation' (A reply to George Pappas). Philosophical Studies, 30, 125-7.
  12. 1976. 'On the University Crisis'. The International Council on the Future of the University: Newsletter, 3 (May), 1.
  13. 1978. 'On Passing the Buck' (Commentary on Roland Pucetti and Robert W. Dykes: 'Sensory cortex and the mind-brain problem').The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 3, 346.
  14. 1983. 'Indeterminism, proximal stimuli, and perception' (Commentary on Fred I. Dretske's Knowledge and the Flow of Information ). The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 6, 64-5.
  15. 1984. 'Barry Humphries: At 'Quadrant', at Fifty'. Quadrant, 28 May), 12.
  16. 1985. 'The Heart of Berkeley's Metaphysics?: A Reply to Ernest Sosa'. Hermathena, 139, 162-4.
    1. 1986. Reprinted in George Berkeley, Essays and Replies. Ed. David Berman. Dublin: Irish Academic Press & Hermathena.
  17. 1985. Foreword to David A.J.Seargent's Plurality and Continuity, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, xii-xiii.
  18. 1986. 'In Defence of Structural Universals'. (Reply to David Lewis), Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 64, 85-8.
  19. 1986. Contribution to 'Tributes to Richard Krygier'. Quadrant, 30 (Nov.), 22.
  20. 1987. 'Comments on Swoyer and Forge'. In Measurement, Realism and Objectivity. Ed. John Forge. Dordrecht: Reidel, 311-17.
  21. 1987. 'Knowledge: Naturalistic analyses'; 'Mental concepts: the Causal analysis'; 'Mind-Body problem: Philosophical theories'. Entries in The Oxford Companion to the Mind. Ed. Richard L.Gregory. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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  23. 1988. 'Are Dispositions Ultimate?: Reply to Franklin'. Philosophical Quarterly, 38, 84-6.
  24. 1988. 'Reply to van Fraassen's "Armstrong on Laws and Probabilities" '. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 66, 224-9.
  25. 1989. 'Commodore J.M.Armstrong, C.B.E., D.S.O., R.A.N., 1900-1988'. Naval Historical Review (Journal of the Naval Historical Society of Australia), N.S. 9, no.8, 15-7.
  26. 1989. Reply to Geoffrey Blainey's 'Australian Universities: Some fashions and faults'. Seminar on the Sociology of Culture 1989. La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia, 8-10.
  27. 1991. 'Arda Denkel's Resemblance Nominalism'. Philosophical Quarterly, 41, 478-82.
  28. 1991. 'Searle's Neo-Cartesian Theory of Consciousness'. In Consciousness (Philosophical Issues, 1). Ed. Enrique Villanueva. Attascadero, California: Ridgeview Publishing Company, 65-71.
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    1. 1995. Reprinted, with minor alterations. Proceedings 1994, of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, Canberra, 68-70.
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  35. 1995. 'War Envoy found peace in new land'. Obituary notice for Phung Nhat Minh. The Australian, Aug.7, 13.
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Critical Notices and Reviews

  1. 1950. 'Bleak prospect for 1984'. Review of 1984, by George Orwell. Honi Soit (Sydney University), June 15, 5.
  2. 1958. 'Educating Sydney?'. Review of Landmarks in Logic, by Vol Molesworth. The Observer (Sydney), April 19, 152.
  3. 1958. 'Critical Notice: A.J.Ayer's The Problem of Knowledge '. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 36, 128-45.
  4. 1958. 'The Andersonians'. Review of Special Issue of The Australian Highway: Anderson and Andersonianism. The Observer, (Sydney), Oct.4, 535.
  5. 1959. 'Russell the Sage'. Review of My Philosophical Development and Wisdom of the West, by Bertrand Russell. The Observer (Sydney), Nov.28, 31.
  6. 1961. 'Chopped Sage'. Review of The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, ed. Robert E. Egner and Lester E. Dennon. The Bulletin, Aug. 5, 31-2.
  7. 1966. Critical Notice: 'Richard Taylor's Action and Purpose '. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 44, 23-40.
  8. 1966. Review of Vietnam seen from East and West. Ed. Sibnarayan Ray. Oz (Sydney), July.
  9. 1966. Review of Brain and Mind, ed. J.R.Smythies. Philosopical Review, 76, 246-9.
  10. 1969. Review of Human Action, Conceptual and Empirical Issues. Ed.Theodore Mischel. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 21, 117-9.
  11. 1970. Review of Berkeley's Renovation of Philosophy, by Gavin Ardley. Philosophical Quarterly, 20, 181.
  12. 1972. 'B.F.Skinner's Plastic Man'. Review of Beyond Freedom and Dignity, by B.F.Skinner. Quadrant, 16 (July-Aug.), 46-50.
  13. 1973. Review of A Modern Introduction to Philosophy, ed. Paul Edwards and Arthur Pap. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 51, 270.
  14. 1976. 'Russell the Robust'. Review of The Life of Bertrand Russell by Ronald W. Clark. Quadrant, 20 (March), 57-8.
  15. 1976. Review of The Achilles of Rationalist Arguments by B.J.Mijuskovic. Journal of Religious History, 9, 103-4.
  16. 1976. 'Reflections on Chomsky', review of Reflections on Language, by Noam Chomsky. Quadrant, 20 (Aug.), 72-5.
  17. 1977. 'Freddy', Review of Part of my Life, by A.J.Ayer. Quadrant, 21 (Nov.), 73-4.
  18. 1978. Review of The Self and its Brain by Karl Popper and John Eccles. Times Literary Supplement, Feb. 17, 183-4.
    1. 1978. Reprinted, with minor alterations, Quadrant, 22 (July), 18-22.
  19. 1979. Review of Cerebral Logic , by Charles W. Needham. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 13, 276.
  20. 1979. 'Program and Performance'. Review of Programs of the Brain by J.Z.Young. Quadrant, 23 (Apr.), 63-5.
  21. 1980. Review of Persons and Minds, by Joseph Margolis. Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 10, 129-50.
  22. 1980. 'The Nature of Creativity'. Review of Liberty and Language, by Geoffrey Sampson. Quadrant, 24 (May), 51-4.
  23. 1982. Review of Scientific Materialism, by Mario Bunge. Australasian Journal of Philosoph, 60, 373-4.
  24. 1982. 'A Search for Values'. Review of Philosophical Explanations by Robert Nozick. Quadrant, 26 (June), 65-70.
  25. 1982. Review of A Case for Idealism, by John Foster. Times Literary Supplement, Oct.22, 1170.
  26. 1982. Review of Tradition, by Edward Shils. Quadrant, 26 (Oct.), 71-3.
  27. 1983. Review of Berkeley: Critical and Interpretive Essays, ed. Colin M. Turbayne. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 61, 439-42.
  28. 1984. Review of Space, Time and Causality, ed. Richard Swinburne. Philosophy, 59, 539-41.
  29. 1984. 'Reinhardt Grossmann's Ontology'. Critical Notice of The Categorial Structure of the World, by Reinhardt Grossmann. Critical Philosophy, 2, 63-76.
  30. 1984. Review of The Vindication of Absolute Idealism, by Timothy Sprigge. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 62, 376-7.
  31. 1986. Review of The Concept of Physical Law, by Norman Swartz. Times Literary Supplement, Mar.7, 253.
  32. 1986. Review of Identity, Cause and Mind, by Sydney Shoemaker. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 64, 236-7.
  33. 1986. Review of Ayer (The Arguments of the Philosophers Series), by John Foster. Mind, 95, 387-9.
  34. 1987. 'Metaphysical Scotland'. Review of The Democratic Intellect in Crisis, by George Davie. Quadrant, 31 (May), 77-8.
  35. 1987. Review of The Closing of the American Mind, by Allan Bloom. Quadrant, 31 (Nov.), 12-6.
  36. 1989. Review of The Secret Connexion - Causation, Realism, and David Hume, by Galen Strawson. Times Literary Supplement, Dec.22-28, 1425.
  37. 1991. Review of Necessity, Essence and Individuation: a Defence of Conventionalism, by Alan Sidelle. Philosophical Books, 32, 106-8.
  38. 1991. Review of Our Place in the Universe, by J.J.C.Smart. Metascience, Pilot Issue, 71-2.
  39. 1992. Review of The Decline of the University, by Philip de Lacey and Gabriël Moens. Policy, 8, 50-1.
  40. 1992. Review of Science and Necessity, by John Bigelow and Robert Pargetter. Australasian Journal of Philosophy , 70, 225-7.
  41. 1992. Review of Causation and Necessity, by Evan Fales. Australasian Journal of Philosophy , 70, 227-9.
  42. 1993. Review of The Immaterial Self: A Defence of the Cartesian Dualist Conception of the Mind, by John Foster. The Philosophical Review , 102, 272-4.
  43. 1993. Review of Locke by Michael Ayers. Mind , 102, 179-183.
  44. 1993. 'The Strange Case of Sydney Sparkes Orr'. Review of Gross Moral Turpitude: The Orr Case Reconsidered, by Cassandra Pybus. Quadrant , 37 (April), 82-3.
  45. 1993. Review of The Nature of All Being, by Raymond Bradley. The Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic , 34, 150-156.
  46. 1994. Review of Aspects of Mind, by Gilbert Ryle, ed. René Meyer. Philosophical Books, 35, 113-4.
  47. 1996. Review of The Metaphysics of Identity over Time, by David S. Oderberg. Philosophical Quarterly, 46, 516-8.
  48. 1996. Review of Holes and Other Superficialities, by Roberto Casati and Achille C. Varzi. The Journal of Philosophy, 93, 585-6.
  49. 1996. 'The Darker Bertrand Russell'. Review of Bertrand Russell: The Spirit of Solitude, by Ray Monk. Quadrant, 40 (June), 78-9.
  50. 1996. 'Qualia Ain't in the Head'. Review of Ten Problems of Consciousness: A Representational Theory of the Phenomenal Mind, by Michael Tye. Psyche, 2 (31), June, (electronic journal).
  51. 2001. Review of Dispositions, by Stephen Mumford. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 62, 246-8.
  52. 2001. Review of Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology, by David Lewis. Philosophical Review, 110, 77-80.
  53. 2001. Review of Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces that shape the Universe, by Martin Rees, Quadrant, 45 (April), 77-8.
  54. 2001. ‘Half a Life’. Review of Bertrand Russell: The Ghost of Madness, by Ray Monk, Salisbury Review, 20 (Autumn), 44-46.
    1. 2001. Reprinted as ‘The True Philosopher’, Quadrant, 45 (July-August), 108 –110.
  55. 2001. ‘The London Freddie Ayer’. Review of A.J. Ayer: A Life, by Ben Rodgers. Quadrant, 45 (September), 82-3.

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