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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. 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". He joined the philosophy department at Bemidji State University in 1972.

He has criticized physicalist views of persons from self-awareness, perceptual experience and the intentionally of thought. 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. He has argued for postmortum survival of the self.

He contributed to Contemporary Dualism: A Defense, published in 2014. Lund is retired and lives with his family on a farm in Northern Minnesota.

Selected publications

• Death and Consciousness: The Case for Life After Death (1985)
• Perception, Mind and Personal Identity: A Critique of Materialism (University Press Of America, 1994)
• Making Sense of It All: An Introduction to Philosophical Inquiry (Pearson, 2002)
• The Conscious Self: The Immaterial Center of Subjective States (Humanities Press, 2005)
• Persons, Souls and Death: A Philosophical Investigation of an Afterlife (McFarland, 2009)
• Death and Consciousness (McFarland, 2016)

References

1. ^ "Philosophy professor to deliver March 3 Honors Council lecture". Bemidji State University. 2010. Archived from the original on September 26, 2024.
2. "Doctoral Dissertations, 1973". The Review of Metaphysics. 27 (1): 187–210. 1973.
3. ^ Rundle, Bede (1998). "Perception, Mind and Personal Identity: A Critique of Materialism". International Studies in Philosophy. 30 (4): 130–131. doi:10.5840/intstudphil199830430.
4. Twemlow, Stuart W. (1986). "Death and Consciousness by David H. Lund (Book Review)". Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic. 50 (5): 497.
5. "Contemporary Dualism: A Defense". Routledge. 2016. Archived from the original on June 24, 2024.
6. "Books Briefly Noted". Zetetic Scholar. 13 (1): 195. 1987.
7. Brier, Bob (1986). "Death and Consciousness by David H. Lund (Book Review)". The Journal of Parapsychology. 50 (2): 162.
8. Madell, Geoffrey (1996). "Book Reviews". Mind. 105 (420): 708. doi:10.1093/mind/105.420.708.
9. "Book Advocates Philosophical Concept of Distinct Self". Horizons. 21 (2): 2. 2006.
10. "Persons, Souls and Death". McFarland. 2024. Archived from the original on September 26, 2024.
11. "Death and Consciousness". McFarland. 2024. Archived from the original on September 26, 2024.

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