I believe the defenders of intelligent design deserve our gratitude for challenging a scientific world view that owes some of the passion displayed by its adherents precisely to the fact that it is thought to liberate us from religion. That world view is ripe for displacement....

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.