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
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]
