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Professor, Manager of Research and Research Education
- Division of History of Ideas and Sciences
- Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences
Contact information
E-mail david.dunerkultur.luse
Phone +46 46 222 09 61
Room LUX:C346
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30
Professor of History of Ideas and Sciences since 2013, manager of research and postgraduate education. My research mainly covers the history of science and philosophy in Sweden during the 17th and 18th centuries, the history and philosophy of astrobiology, and cognitive history. I defended my thesis on Swedenborg's natural philosophy in 2004, and have since then studied, among other things, the inventor Polhem and the travels of Linnaeus' disciples. My latest book is an overview of the history of thought in Sweden, Svensk idéhistoria: Forntid, medeltid, renässans (2022). I am also interested in epistemological questions concerning the search for life and biosignatures, and have developed cognitive perspectives in historical research in the books Tankemaskinen (2012), Human Lifeworlds (2016), and Cognitive History (2019). I am currently a project participant in the research program "The End of the World: A Transdisciplinary Approach to the Apocalyptic Imaginary in the Past and Present".
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My profile in Lund University research portalI am the editor-in-chief of the department’s publication series Ugglan: Lund Studies in the History of Ideas and Sciences and Lund Studies in Arts and Cultural Sciences. In addition, I am editor-in-chief of the Swedish Linnaean Society’s annual, and am a member of the editorial board of several international journals, as well as editor-in-chief of the publication series Skånsk senmedeltid och renässans. I have been editor-in-chief for Lychnos: Årsbok för idé- och lärdomshistoria and Sjuttonhundratal: Nordic Yearbook for Eighteenth Century Studies. I am a member of several learned societies, including the New Society of Letters at Lund, the Royal Society of the Humanities at Lund, the Michaelis Guild, and the Royal Physiographic Society. Among my awards are the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters Prize in 2006 for the thesis Världsmaskinen; the Einar Hansen Legacy in 2010; and the Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy Prize in 2023 for the book Svensk idéhistoria.
Professor, Manager of Research and Research Education
- Division of History of Ideas and Sciences
- Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences
Contact information
E-mail david.dunerkultur.luse
Phone +46 46 222 09 61
Room LUX:C346
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30