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The book begins with Armstrong's early life experience as a nun in an authoritarian convent; she talks about the problems she encountered there, and recounts the aftermath of the Second Vatican Council, and finally her leaving the convent.
David Malet Armstrong AO FAHA (8 July 1926 – 13 May 2014), [4] 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.
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Using this conception of perception as a state, Armstrong characterizes consciousness as "perception or awareness of the state of our own mind", [7] or "a self-scanning system in the central nervous system". [8] He sees consciousness not as an external construct that interacts with the body and brain, but a self-aware state of the physical brain.
This is a list of metaphysicians, philosophers who specialize in metaphysics. See also Lists of philosophers . This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
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Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that investigates principles of reality transcending those of any particular science. Cosmology and ontology are traditional branches of metaphysics. It is concerned with explaining the fundamental nature of being and the world . [ 1 ]
He suggested a dualistic ontology of Spirit and Nature and analysed aesthetics activity within the context of a realist metaphysics that distinguished between the Subject and the Natural world. [9] However, through deeper analysis, Croce rejected the Spirit-Nature theory and claimed a Spiritual Monism.