David. H. Lund
David Herbert Lund is an American philosopher and writer. He is professor emeritus of philosophy at Bemidji State University.
Lund was born in Roseau, Minnesota.[1] He obtained a master's degree in psychology before he pursued his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Minnesota. His doctoral dissertation was "Private Language, the Egocentric Outlook, and the Nature of Mind".[2] He joined the philosophy department at Bemidji State University in 1972.[1]
He has criticized physicalist views of persons from self-awareness, perceptual experience and the intentionally of thought.[3] Lund has defended mind-body dualism. In his book Persons, Souls and Death, he argued that a person is an immaterial subject of conscious states, linked causally to the body but distinct from it.[1] He has argued for postmortum survival of the self.[4]
He contributed to Contemporary Dualism: A Defense, published in 2014.[5] Lund is retired and lives with his family on a farm in Northern Minnesota.
Selected publications
[edit]- Death and Consciousness: The Case for Life After Death (1985)[6][7]
- Perception, Mind and Personal Identity: A Critique of Materialism (University Press Of America, 1994)[3][8]
- Making Sense of It All: An Introduction to Philosophical Inquiry (Pearson, 2002)
- The Conscious Self: The Immaterial Center of Subjective States (Humanities Press, 2005)[9]
- Persons, Souls and Death: A Philosophical Investigation of an Afterlife (McFarland, 2009)[10]
- Death and Consciousness (McFarland, 2016)[11]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Philosophy professor to deliver March 3 Honors Council lecture". Bemidji State University. 2010. Archived from the original on September 26, 2024.
- ^ "Doctoral Dissertations, 1973". The Review of Metaphysics. 27 (1): 187–210. 1973.
- ^ a b Rundle, Bede (1998). "Perception, Mind and Personal Identity: A Critique of Materialism". International Studies in Philosophy. 30 (4): 130–131. doi:10.5840/intstudphil199830430.
- ^ Twemlow, Stuart W. (1986). "Death and Consciousness by David H. Lund (Book Review)". Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic. 50 (5): 497.
- ^ "Contemporary Dualism: A Defense". Routledge. 2016. Archived from the original on June 24, 2024.
- ^ "Books Briefly Noted". Zetetic Scholar. 13 (1): 195. 1987.
- ^ Brier, Bob (1986). "Death and Consciousness by David H. Lund (Book Review)". The Journal of Parapsychology. 50 (2): 162.
- ^ Madell, Geoffrey (1996). "Book Reviews". Mind. 105 (420): 708. doi:10.1093/mind/105.420.708.
- ^ "Book Advocates Philosophical Concept of Distinct Self". Horizons. 21 (2): 2. 2006.
- ^ "Persons, Souls and Death". McFarland. 2024. Archived from the original on September 26, 2024.
- ^ "Death and Consciousness". McFarland. 2024. Archived from the original on September 26, 2024.
