Biography

Matthew D. Lund is an Associate Professor in Rowan’s Philosophy and World Religions Department. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2004. He has been at Rowan since 2004. Lund's areas of scholarly research include Philosophy of Science, Epistemology, History of Science, and the Philosophy of Psychology/Cognitive Science. He also has interest in the Philosophy of Language, the Philosophy of Art and Literature, and Nietzsche. At Rowan he teaches Philosophy of Science, Symbolic Logic, Philosophy of Language, Metalogic, Introduction to Philosophy, Epistemology, Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics, Nietzsche, and American Philosophy. He has also taught Moral Philosophy and Philosophy of Art in the past. His book, N.R. Hanson: Observation, Discovery, and Scientific Change (Humanity Books), appeared in January 2010. He is the editor of N.R. Hanson’s Perception and Discovery: An Introduction to Scientific Inquiry, 2nd Edition (Springer, 2018), What I Do Not Believe, and Other Essays, 2nd Edition (Springer, 2020), and Constellations and Conjectures (Springer, 2025). He has recently published papers on the history and epistemology of the personal equation in 18th- and 19th-century astronomy. He is currently working on the philosophy of astronomy, the replication crisis in psychology, and the role of language in medical diagnosis. He can be reached at 856-256-4539, or email lund@rowan.edu. A faculty PROFile of Dr. Lund can be found here.