PHILOSOPHER

David Malet Armstrong

1926 - 2014

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David Malet Armstrong (8 July 1926 – 13 May 2014), 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Malet Armstrong has received more than 211,463 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). David Malet Armstrong is the 1,187th most popular philosopher (down from 1,081st in 2019), the 245th most popular biography from Australia (down from 200th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Australian Philosopher.

Memorability Metrics

  • 210k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.04

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of David Malet Armstrongs by language

Over the past year David Malet Armstrong has had the most page views in the with 22,119 views, followed by Spanish (2,815), and French (1,933). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Swahili (54.73%), Simple English (47.26%), and Kurdish (Sorani) (44.36%)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, David Malet Armstrong ranks 1,187 out of 1,267. Before him are Hermann Lietz, Iris Marion Young, William Chittick, Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde, Richard Price, and Judith Jarvis Thomson. After him are John Major, Papirius Fabianus, Quentin Meillassoux, Hendrik Adamson, Robert Brandom, and Stanley Jaki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, David Malet Armstrong ranks 406. Before him are Wolfgang Seidel, Efraín Sánchez, Beatriz Segall, Astrid Ivask, Jacques Swaters, and Joan Shawlee. After him are Danny Blanchflower, Raymond Gosling, Diana Lynn, Bob Richards, W. Michael Blumenthal, and Géza Kádas. Among people deceased in 2014, David Malet Armstrong ranks 390. Before him are Richard Hoggart, Barbro Kollberg, Ivica Brzić, Andriy Bal, Carla Laemmle, and Theodore Van Kirk. After him are Blagoje Paunović, Isabelle Collin Dufresne, Odd Iversen, Mustapha Zitouni, Jürgen Kurbjuhn, and Jimmy Jones.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, David Malet Armstrong ranks 245 out of 1,143. Before him are Lauren Jackson (1981), Peter Garrett (1953), Fleur Mellor (1936), Richard Bonynge (1930), Joseph Jacobs (1854), and Patricia Wrightson (1921). After him are Adrian Quist (1913), Judy Amoore (1940), Oodgeroo Noonuccal (1920), Stanley Bruce (1883), Lesley Turner Bowrey (1942), and May Robson (1858).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Australia

Among philosophers born in Australia, David Malet Armstrong ranks 6. Before him are Peter Singer (1946), Samuel Alexander (1859), David Chalmers (1966), J. L. Mackie (1917), and John Finnis (1940).

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