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Almost everything D. M. Armstrong published in the first decade of his publishing career (1954-1963) was about the philosophy of perception. Some of his most recent writings are also in this area. Although the first section of this essay, which discusses Armstrong’s purposes for distinguishing immediate from mediate perception and also provides an introduction to his central views about the nature of perception, begins by considering his first three books in the order of their publication, I will not persist in a chronological treatment of Armstrong’s writings nor attempt to survey his contributions item by item.
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Sanford, D.H. (1984). Armstrong’s Theory of Perception. In: Bogdan, R.J. (eds) D.M. Armstrong. Profiles, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6280-4_2
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