There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.

1970 "Death" Nous pp. 1970 "Armstrong on the Mind" Philosophical Review pp.  112-6.

His main areas of philosophical interest are philosophy of mind political philosophy and ethics. Continuing his critique of reductionism he is the author of Mind and Cosmos (2012) in which he argues against a reductionist view and specifically the neo-Darwinian view of the emergence of consciousness.