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News: July/August 2014

David Armstrong Dies • Kindergarten Ethics Lessons • Stephen Hawking warns of Artificial Intelligence dangers — News reports by Sue Roberts and Anja Steinbauer

David Armstrong

One of Australia’s best-known philosophers David Armstrong died on 13th May aged 87. Armstrong spent most of his academic life at Sydney University where he became a professor of philosophy in 1964. A scientific realist, Armstrong was committed to finding a description of everything that exists based only on physical objects and properties. Arguing that universals exist, Armstrong held that both objects and properties are fundamental entities. The same is true of the laws of physics, which Armstrong thought to be relations between universals.

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