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. 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.