David Malet Armstrong

Biographical Note

David Malet Armstrong was born in Melbourne on 8 July 1926, the son of Commodore John Armstrong, RAN and Philippa Armstrong. He was educated at Dragon School, Oxford, and Geelong Grammar School. He served in the Royal Australian Navy in 1945-46. He then enrolled at the University of Sydney, where he graduated with an Honours degree in Philosophy in 1950. He continued his philosophical studies at Exeter College, Oxford, where his supervisor was H.H. Price. Graduating as a B.Phil., he lectured at London University before returning to Australia in 1955.

Armstrong took up a post as a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Melbourne in 1956, becoming Senior Lecturer in 1961. He was awarded a doctorate in 1960. In 1964 he returned to the University of Sydney as the Challis Professor of Philosophy and held this position until his retirement in 1991. Following a split in the Department of Philosophy in 1973, he was the first Head of the Department of Traditional and Modern Philosophy. Since 1991 he has been Emeritus Professor of Philosophy.

Armstrong's particular interests have been in the areas of the theory of knowledge and perception, the philosophy of mind and metaphysics and his writings quickly brought him an international reputation. He has held Visiting Professorships at Yale University, Stanford University and the Universities of Wisconsin, Texas and California. His principal publications are Berkeley's theory of vision (1960), Perception and the physical world (1961), Bodily sensations (1962), A materialist theory of the mind (1968), Belief, truth and knowledge (1973), Universals and scientific realism (1978), The nature of mind and other essays (1980), What is a law of nature? (1983), Consciousness and causality (1984), Universals (1989), A combinatorial theory of possibility (1989), A world of states of affairs (1997) and The mind-body problem (1999).

Armstrong is a Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 1993.

Armstrong married Madeleine Haydon in 1950 and Jennifer Clark in 1982.

Guide to the Papers of David Armstrong

Collection Summary

Creator:

Armstrong, D.M. (David Malet), 1926-

Title:

Papers of David Armstrong

Date Range:

1945-1991

Collection Number:

MS 9363

Extent:

3.71 m. (27 boxes)

Repository:

National Library of Australia

Abstract:

Correspondence, notes, writings on philosophical, social and political issues, lectures, speeches, addresses, book reviews, submissions, petitions, circulars, cuttings and other papers.

Introduction

Scope and Content

The papers fall into three categories. The early series comprise a comprehensive record of David Armstrong's philosophical writings extending from his undergraduate days at the University of Sydney until the early 1980s. They include not only the drafts, usually handwritten, of his essays, articles, lectures and book reviews, but associated correspondence with other philosophers and with editors of journals, reviews of his early books, and his notes of lectures that he attended at Sydney and Oxford University.

Secondly, there is a series of files documenting Armstrong's strong interest in a range of social and political questions, especially during the Vietnam War years. They include speeches and addresses, articles for university and other newspapers, records of the Sydney University Association for Cultural Freedom, and papers on the 1970 and 1971 Vietnam Moratoriums.

The third category comprise papers relating to disputes within the Department of Philosophy at Sydney University and the split into two departments in 1973. They include correspondence, submissions, petitions, circulars, agenda papers, cuttings and other papers dating from 1965 until 1985.

Among the correspondents are John Burnheim, Keith Campbell, Noam Chomsky, Michael Devitt, Owen Harries, Eugene Kamenka, W.M. O'Neil, J.J.C. Smart and Alan Stout.

Arrangement

The papers were filed chronologically by Professor Armstrong in a number of series and this arrangement has been maintained by the Library.

Access

The collection is available for reference.

Provenance

The papers were donated by Professor Armstrong to the National Library under the Taxation Incentives for the Arts Scheme in 1992.

Copying and Publishing

Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.

Preferred Citation

Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of David Armstrong, National Library of Australia, MS 9363, [series and/or folder number]'.


　

Series List and Descriptions

Series 1 Philosophical papers, 1947-1980

Armstrong maintained files on his philosophical writings, including books, articles, essays, comments on other writings and conference papers, in strict chronological order. This series of files begin with undergraduate essays at Sydney University in 1947-50 and continues until 1980. All the files contain a copy of the particular work, whether it be a manuscript, typescript, reprint or photocopy. Many of the files also contain drafts, correspondence with other philosophers, editors of journals and occasionally students. Reviews and contracts with publishers can be found in the files on some of his books, such as Berkeley's theory of vision (1960), Perception and the physical world (1961), and Belief, truth and knowledge (1973).

The correspondents include A.J. Ayer, C. Behan McCullagh, John Beloff, Max Black, Robert Brown, Konrad Cramer, George Davie, Max Deutscher, Michael Devitt, Antony Flew, Paul Foulkes, Owen Harries, Frank Jackson, Graham MacDonald, John Mackie, C.B. Martin, Hugh Mellor, James Moulder, H.H. Price, Colin Radford, Peter Ryan, Roy Sellars, Sydney Shoemaker, J.J.C. Smart, Alistair Stewart, Michael Tooley and G.N.A. Vesey

Folder 1 History essays, 1947
Folder 2 History: German socialist movement to 1914, 1948
Folder 3 History: Australian labour movement, 1880-90; Chinese Communists, 1920-47, 1949
Folder 4 Philosophy essays, 1949
Folder 5-6 Philosophy thesis: Kant's 'Transcendental analytic', 1950
Folder 7 The meaning of free thought, 1951
Folder 8 Space and time, 1952
Folder 9 Mill on liberty, 1953
Folder 10 The nature of pain, 1953
Folder 11 Identity of indiscernibles, 1953
Folder 12 British empiricists, 1953

Includes note by Gilbert Ryle

Folder 13 B.Phil. thesis: The nature of complexity, 1954
Folder 14 Berkeley's puzzle about the water that seems both hot and cold, 1954
Folder 15 The infinite divisibility of space and time, 1955
Folder 16 Illusions of sense, 1955-1957

Includes letter of Brian Medlin

Folder 17 Are the primary qualities really primary?

Includes letter of J.J.C. Smart

Folder 18 Absolute and relative motion

Includes correspondence

Folder 19 Location of pain, 1958

Includes letter of C.B. Martin

Folder 20 The nature of perception, 1958

Includes correspondence

Folder 21 Mr Arthadeva and naïve realism, 1959
Folder 22 Perception and the physical world, 1960

Includes reviews, correspondence

Folder 23 Mind and consciousness, 1961

Includes letter of J.J.C. Smart

Folder 24 The three realms of modern philosophy, 1961
Folder 25 Mental images, 1961
Folder 26 Causality, 1961
Folder 27 Bodily sensations, 1962

Includes letter of Norman Malcolm

Folder 28 Touch, 1962-1963

Includes correspondence

Folder 29 Is man free?, 1963
Folder 30 Max Deutscher and perception, 1963

Includes letter of Max Deutscher

Folder 31 Vesey on sensations of heat, 1963-1964

Includes correspondence

Folder 32 Knowledge, 1963

Includes correspondence

Folder 33 Will and desire, 1964
Folder 34 The nature of mind, 1965
Folder 35 Rational conduct, 1965
Folder 36 Berkeley's philosophical writings, 1965-1967

Correspondence

Folder 37 Berkeley's theory of vision, 1965-1989

Correspondence, reviews

Folder 38 The causal powers of beliefs, 1966
Folder 39 Science and philosophy, 1966
Folder 40 Is the will a cause?, 1966
Folder 41 Colour-realism and the argument from microscopes, 1966-1967

Includes correspondence

Folder 42 Meaning, 1966-1967
Folder 43 Miss Anscombe and the intentionality of sensation, 1967
Folder 44 Two models for meaning, 1967
Folder 45 The secondary qualities, 1967-1968

Includes correspondence

Folder 46 Truth as correspondence, 1968

Includes letter to C.B. Martin

Folder 47 The headless woman illusion, 1968; What are propositions, 1968; Philosophy and history, 1968; Necessary truth and Platonism, 1968
Folder 48 Meaning, 1969; Physicalism and the problem of the secondary qualities, 1969

Includes letter of Charles Whiteley

Folder 49 Reasons for believing, 1969
Folder 50 Dispositions are causes, 1969
Folder 51 Properties and predicates, 1969

Includes correspondence

Folder 52 Does knowledge entail belief?, 1969-1970

Includes correspondence

Folder 53 The principle of deductibility for knowledge, 1970; Meaning and communication, 1967-77

Includes correspondence

Folder 54 The battle of the gods and the giants, 1971

Includes correspondence

Folder 55 Acting and trying, 1971-1974

Includes correspondence

Folder 56 Materialism, properties and predicates, 1971-1972

Includes correspondence

Folder 57 Epistemological foundations for a materialist theory of the mind, 1971-1973

Includes correspondence

Folder 58 Language and the mind, 1971-1973

Includes correspondence

Folder 59 Belief, truth and knowledge, 1971-1974

Includes correspondence

Folder 60 Danto on the will, 1972; Referential opacity and sense-data, 1972

Includes correspondence

Folder 61 Continuity and change in philosophy, 1973

Includes letter of J.J.C. Smart

Folder 62 Immediate perception, 1973-1974

Includes correspondence

Folder 63 Towards a theory of properties, 1973-1975

Includes correspondence

Folder 64 The causal theory of the mind, 1973-1975

Includes correspondence

Folder 65 Infinite regress arguments and the problem of universals, 1973-1974

Includes correspondence

Folder 66 Belief, truth and knowledge, 1973-1976

Correspondence, reviews

Folder 67 Why I am an atheist, 1974; Beliefs and desires as causes of actions, 1974-1975

Includes correspondence

Folder 68 The nature of tradition, 1974-1976

Includes correspondence

Folder 69 Naturalism, materialism and first philosophy, 1974-1978

Includes correspondence

Folder 70 Modern materialism and the mind, 1975

Includes correspondence

Folder 71 Direct versus representative realism, 1975
Folder 72 Perception, sense-data and causality, 1975-1980

Includes correspondence

Folder 73 Frege's 'Thoughts' and an objection to epiphenomenalism, 1976-1980

Includes correspondence

Folder 74 The problem of universals, 1976-1978

Includes correspondence

Folder 75 Anderson's metaphysics, 1976-1977

Includes correspondence

Folder 76 Identity through time, 1976-1980

Includes correspondence

Folder 77 Logical necessity and the a priori, 1977; Oxford companion to the mind, 1977-1987

Includes correspondence

Folder 78 Commentary on Puccetti and Dykes, 1978
Folder 79 What is consciousness? 1978
Folder 80 Consciousness, 1978-1981

Includes correspondence

Folder 81 Reply to Tooley on belief, 1979

Includes letter of Michael Tooley

Folder 82 Belief Conference, University of Queensland, July 1979
Folder 83 Laws of nature, 1979

Includes correspondence

Folder 84 Putnam's 'Twin earth' case, 1979; Uninstantiated universals, 1979; R.B. Braithwaite's argument for the constant-conjunction view of laws, 1979

Includes correspondence

Folder 85 Against 'Ostrich nominalism', 1979-1981

Includes correspondence

Folder 86 Universals Symposium, University of Otago, May 1980

Includes correspondence

Series 2 Lectures by Armstrong, 1954-1991

This series consists largely of the manuscripts of lectures on philosophy given by Armstrong at the University of Melbourne, the University of Sydney and some overseas universities. He wrote them out by hand, often on foolscap pads, and they are usually a verbatim record of the lecture. In a few cases the files contain roneoed copies of lecture notes and reading lists issued to students by Armstrong. The files were maintained by Armstrong in chronological order and this order has been retained.

Folder 1 Thomas Reid (London), 1954-1955
Folder 2 Political philosophy (3 vols), 1954-1955
Folder 3 Kant's ethics (Birkbeck College), 1955
Folder 4 Kant's Critique of pure reason (Melbourne), 1956
Folder 5 Idealism and realism, 1956-1958
Folder 6 Aristotle, 1958
Folder 7 Plato, 1958
Folder 8 Pre-Socratics, 1958
Folder 9 Logical atomism, 1958
Folder 10 Berkeley (Melbourne), 1958-1961
Folder 11 Greek philosophy, 1959
Folder 12 Plato's theory of forms (Melbourne), 1959
Folder 13 Aristotle, 1959
Folder 14 Modern philosophy, 1960
Folder 15 Knowledge (Yale), 1962
Folder 16 British empiricists (Yale, Sydney), 19621965
Folder 17 Philosophy I, 1965-1966
Folder 18 Problem of evil, 1966
Folder 19 Berkeley, 1966-1967
Folder 20 Philosophy I, 1967-1968
Folder 21 Ryle's The concept of mind (Stanford), 1968

Includes correspondence

Folder 22 Locke and Berkeley, 1970
Folder 23 Epistemology, 1970-1975
Folder 24 Rise of modern science and the representative theory of perception
Folder 25 Modern epistemology, 1971
Folder 26 Locke and Berkeley, 1971
Folder 27 Epistemology, 1972
Folder 28-29 Epistemology, 1973
Folder 30 Epistemology, scepticism and truth, 1973-1981
Folder 31-32 Philosophy of mind, 1973
Folder 33 Berkeley, 1974
Folder 34 Anthony Quinton, 1975
Folder 35 Epistemology, 1976
Folder 36 Informal semantics, 1976

Includes letter of C.A.J. Coady

Folder 37 Locke, 1977-1978
Folder 38 Philosophy I, 1978-1979
Folder 39-40 Plato, 1978-1979
Folder 41 Locke, 1979
Folder 42 Meaning and nominalism, 1979
Folder 43 Berkeley, 1980-1983
Folder 44 Philosophy of mind, 1981
Folder 45 Locke and empiricism, 1984
Folder 46 Universals, 1986
Folder 47 Universals, 1987
Folder 48 Universals, 1989

Readings

Folder 49 Philosophy I, 1990
Folder 50 Epistemology, 1990-1991

Course notes

Folder 51 Philosophy of mind, 1991-1992

Course notes

Series 3 Book reviews by Armstrong, 1950-1980

The files in this series contain reviews by Armstrong in various forms: typescripts, photocopies, reprints and issues of journals. In some cases, copies of reviews by other writers have been included and there is also some correspondence with the authors of the books reviewed, other philosophers and writers, or with the editors of journals. The files were kept in chronological order by Armstrong.

The correspondents include H.W. Arndt, Sir Alfred Ayer, Noam Chomsky, Manning Clark, Paul Foulkes, John Gross, B.J. Mijuskovic, Karl Popper, Geoffrey Sampson, Roger Sandall, Richard Taylor and David Wilson.

The dates in the list refer to the date of publication of the review.

Folder 1 George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty Four, 1950
Folder 2 Owen Harries, ed. Anderson and Andersonism, 1958
Folder 3 A.J. Ayer, The problem of knowledge, 1958
Folder 4 Bertrand Russell, My philosophical development, 1959

Includes correspondence with Paul Foulkes, 1972

Folder 5 Sibnarayan Ray, ed., Vietnam seen from East and West, 1966
Folder 6 Richard Taylor, Action and purpose, 1966

Includes correspondence with Richard Taylor

Folder 7 J.R. Smythies, ed., Brain and mind, 1967
Folder 8 Theodore Mischel, ed., Human action; conceptual and empirical issues, 1969
Folder 9 Gavin Ardley, Berkeley's renovation of philosophy, 1970
Folder 10 B.F. Skinner, Beyond freedom and dignity, 1972

Includes other reviews

Folder 11 Paul Edwards and Arthur Pap, eds., A modern introduction to philosophy, 1973
Folder 12 B.J. Mijuskovic, The Achilles of rationalist arguments, 1976

Includes correspondence with B.J. Mijuskovic

Folder 13 Noam Chomsky, Reflections on language, 1976
Folder 14 Ronald W. Clark, The life of Bertrand Russell, 1976

Includes correspondence

Folder 15 A.J. Ayer, Part of my life, 1977

Includes correspondence with Sir Alfred Ayer

Folder 16 Karl Popper and John Eccles, The self and its brain, 1978

Includes correspondence and other reviews

Folder 17 Charles W. Needham, Cerebral logic, 1979
Folder 18 J.Z. Young, Programs of the brain, 1979

Includes other reviews

Folder 19 Joseph Margolis, Persons and minds, 1979
Folder 20 Geoffrey Sampson, Liberty and language, 1980

Includes correspondence with Geoffrey Sampson and Noam Chomsky

Series 4 Lectures by others, 1945-1964

Most of the files in this series contain handwritten notes by Armstrong of philosophy lectures he attended at the University of Sydney and Oxford University between 1947 and 1954. In a few cases there are typescript or roneoed copies of lectures that he did not attend. The typescript notes of lectures by Michael Oakeshott at the London School of Economics in 1951-52 were made by Peter Coleman.

Folder 1 John Anderson, Philosophical implications of Marxism, 1945
Folder 2 John Anderson, John Stuart Mill's System of logic, 1947
Folder 3 A.K. Stout, Theory of knowledge, 1947
Folder 4 A.R. Walker, Philosophy I, 1947
Folder 5 John Anderson, Later Platonic dialogues, 1948; John Anderson, Formal logic, 1948
Folder 6 J.L. Mackie, Pre-Socratics, 1948
Folder 7 T. Rose, The subject matter of philosophy, 1948; T. Rose, Hegel, 1948
Folder 8 John Anderson, Education: Marx, Spencer, Arnold, Dewey, 1949
Folder 9 T. Rose, The Sophist, 1949
Folder 10 A.R. Walker, Modern philosophy: Descartes, Spinoza, Hume, 1949
Folder 11 John Anderson, Marx, 1950
Folder 12 T. Rose, Symbolic logic, 1950
Folder 13 J.L. Mackie, Kant, 1950
Folder 14 J.L. Mackie, Sociology of law, 1950
Folder 15 Michael Oakeshott, Political philosophy, 1951-1952
Folder 16 J.L. Austin, Words and deeds, 1952
Folder 17 Gilbert Ryle, Theaetetus, 1952
Folder 18 S. Toulmin, Laws, models, hypotheses, 1952-1953
Folder 19 Miscellaneous lecture notes, Oxford, 1952-1954

Includes notes regarding Iris Murdoch

Folder 20 H.H. Price, Complex ideas, 1953; H.H. Price, Belief, 1953
Folder 21 Gilbert Ryle, Theory of meaning, 1954
Folder 22 D.A.T. Gasking, Logic, 1956 (?)
Folder 23 J.L. Mackie, Logic and methods of inquiry, 1964

Series 5 Social and political papers, 1956-1987

The papers in these files are quite diverse in both form and content. In addition to manuscript, typescript and printed copies of some of Armstrong's addresses and speeches, there are letters, reports, petitions, circulars, newspaper cuttings and issues of student newspapers. Some of the files relate to a particular talk, while others deal with organisations or activities extending over a period. Examples of the latter are the files on the Sydney University Association for Cultural Freedom, the 1971 Vietnam Moratorium and the 1976 Latvian protest.

The correspondents include W.H.C. Eddy, Nicholas Farnham, Gerard Henderson, Eugene Kamenka, J. van der Kroef, Lia Looveer, Bruce Mansfield and Vu Van Hieu.

Folder 1 The case against religion, 1956
Folder 2 Intellectual freedom, 1961
Folder 3 Censorship, 1964
Folder 4 Peace with Freedom, 1965-1967

Includes correspondence

Folder 5 Sydney University Association for Cultural Freedom, 1965-1975

Includes correspondence

Folder 6 The politics of liberty, 1966

Includes letter of John Thompson

Folder 7 Humphreys affair, 1967

Includes correspondence

Folder 8 Non-Theists and Catholics conversation, St John's College, 1967
Folder 9 Conscience and the law, 1970
Folder 10 Politicisation of philosophy departments, 1970
Folder 11 Vietnam debate, May 1970
Folder 12 Vietnam Moratorium, 1970

Includes correspondence

Folder 13 Vietnam, 1970-1973

Includes correspondence

Folder 14 The nature of our democracy, 1971

Includes correspondence

Folder 15 Vietnam Moratorium, 1971

Includes correspondence

Folder 16 Should the university be politically neutral? 1971; The role of the university in social change, 1972

Includes correspondence

Folder 17 Captive Nations Council of New South Wales, 1973-1974

Includes correspondence

Folder 18 Address to Joint Baltic Committee, 1974

Includes correspondence

Folder 19 International Council on the Future of Universities, 1974

Includes correspondence

Folder 20 Valentyn Moroz, 1974

Includes correspondence

Folder 21 Authority and discipline in society, 1974; Sakharov Appeal, 1975; Vietnam: Vu Van Hieu, 1975

Includes correspondence

Folder 22 Latvian protest: Gunars Rode, 1976

Includes correspondence

Folder 23 Human rights in the Soviet Union, 1977
Folder 24 Academic freedom: Democratic Clubs of NSW Conference, 1979

Includes correspondence

Folder 25 Paddy O'Brien, 1981

Includes correspondence

Folder 26 Donation to Sydney University, 1982-1983

Includes correspondence

Folder 27 Enquiry into Women's Studies, Sydney University, 1987

Includes correspondence

Series 6 Sydney University School of Philosophy, 1965-1985

Armstrong was appointed Challis Professor of Philosophy at Sydney University in 1964. In the following year he was a central figure in a public dispute when the Professorial Board overruled the decision of a Selection Committee to appoint Frank Knopfelmacher as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy. Divisions within the Department became acute in 1971-1973. The issues included the introduction of a Marxist-Leninist course in 1971, the appointment of Patrick Flanagan as a tutor in 1972, an attack on Armstrong by his colleague Michael Devitt in a private note which led to debates and questions in the State Parliament, and moves to introduce a feminist course in 1973. These disputes culminated in a staff and student strike and demonstrations in June 1973. Faced with the possibility of an exodus of philosophers, the Vice-Chancellor decided in October 1973 to split the Department into two units: the Department of Traditional and Modern Philosophy initially headed by Armstrong and the Department of General Philosophy initially headed by John Burnheim. Together they constituted the School of Philosophy.

Armstrong assembled and retained a comprehensive collection of papers and printed material documenting these disputes in great detail (folders 1-21). They include correspondence, both private and official, open letters, statements, submissions, petitions, draft motions, agenda papers, circulars, leaflets, student newspapers and other publications, issues of journals and parliamentary debates. The correspondence includes letters from members of the public commenting on the disputes. The papers were kept in manila folders or loose in box letter files under the headings 'Knopfelmacher dispute', 'Marxist-Leninist dispute' and 'Philosophy disputes' and this general arrangement has been retained by the Library.

The 1974-1984 papers in this series (folders 22-37) mostly deal with the relations between the two departments following the 1973 split. They refer to such matters as proposals for common courses and seminars, the appointment of tutors and other staff, the staff-student ratios in the two departments, decision-making within the departments, the 1977 report on problems in the School of Philosophy, transfer of staff between the departments, discussions about curriculum, the role of Armstrong as the only full Professor in the School, and arguments about possible amalgamation of the departments in the early 1980s. They include copies of letters and other documents supplied to Armstrong by his colleagues in the Department of Traditional and Modern Philosophy.

The correspondents include John Burnheim, Keith Campbell, Paul Crittenden, Michael Devitt, John Gunn, Owen Harries, R. Ian Jack, Frank Knopfelmacher, Professor Henry Mayer, Graham Nerlich, Professor W.M. O'Neil, Professor H.L. Rogers, Professor R.N. Spann, Professor Edward Shils, David Stove, Professor Alan Stout, Professor J.M. Ward and Professor Bruce Williams.

Folder 1-3 Knopfelmacher dispute, 1965
Folder 4-8 Marxist-Leninist course dispute, 1971
Folder 9 Philosophy disputes, 1971
Folder 10-13 Philosophy disputes, 1972
Folder 14-21 Philosophy disputes, 1973
Folder 22 School of Philosophy, 1974-1975
Folder 23-25 School of Philosophy, 1976
Folder 26-27 School of Philosophy, 1977
Folder 28-30 School of Philosophy, 1978
Folder 31-33 School of Philosophy, 1979
Folder 34 School of Philosophy, 1980
Folder 35 School of Philosophy, 1981-1982
Folder 36 School of Philosophy, 1983
Folder 37 School of Philosophy, 1984-1985
Folder 38 Carl Green. Disputes within the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sydney 1971-1973: a resource for historical research, Sydney, 1991

Series 7 Miscellaneous papers, 1966-1976

The files in this small series were among the philosophical papers, but have been segregated as they deal with more general matters.

The first file documents Armstrong's involvement in the selection of the first Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tasmania since the dismissal of Sydney Sparkes Orr in 1956. The three files on overseas trips mostly consist of correspondence, both official and personal. The file on Armstrong's 1969 visit to England includes a large number of letters from his parents and friends and colleagues in Australia, some of them reporting on activities within the Department of Philosophy at Sydney University.

The correspondents include Tom Fitzgerald, Richard Krygier, Graham Nerlich, H.B. Acton (Edinburgh), John Beloff (Edinburgh), Peter Caldwell (Cambridge), Antony Flew (Keele), E.J. Furlong (Belfast), Selwyn Grave (Perth), Michael Hodges, D.A. Kearney (Hobart), (Nashville), James Moulder (Grahamstown), Stephen Pepper (Berkeley), Edward Poznanski (Jerusalem) and Roland Puccetti (Singapore).

Folder 1 University of Tasmania Chair of Philosophy, 1966-1968
Folder 2 Academic leave, 1969
Folder 3 Vanderbilt University and United States, 1972-1973
Folder 4 England and South Africa, 1973-1974
Folder 5 Sydney University Political Economy dispute, 1976
Folder 6 Curriculum vitae of Armstrong, 7 January 2001

　

Container List

Series

Folder/Item

Box

1

1-10

1

1

11-19

2

1

20-29

3

1

30-40

4

1

41-48

5

1

50-57

6

1

59-66

7

1

67-75

8

1

76-84

9

1

85-86

10

2

1-7

10

2

8-17

11

2

18-26

12

2

27-36

13

2

37-45

14

2

46-51

15

3

1-3

15

3

4-13

16

3

14-20

17

4

1-3

17

4

4-12

18

4

13-22

19

4

23

20

5

1-9

20

5

10-19

21

5

20-27

22

6

1-2

22

6

3-10

23

6

11-20

24

6

21-30

25

6

31-38

26

7

1

26

7

2-6

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MS 9363

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Date completed:

September 1999

Last updated:

September 1999