# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-malet-armstrong
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:00:24.665Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-malet-armstrong"
name: "David Malet Armstrong"
slug: "david-malet-armstrong"
description: "David Malet Armstrong, often D. M. Armstrong, was 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."
tagline: "Australian philosopher (1926-2014)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "AU"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1926-07-08"
deathDate: "2014-05-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump