Anders Jeffner#
| Email: | ajeffner 'at' hotmail.com |
| Membership Number: | 1915 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
| Section: | PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY & RELIGIOUS STUDIES |
| Username: | ajeffner |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2002 – 2007 President of The Royal Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, Stockholm
- 2000 – 2004 Member of the board of Växjö University, Sweden
- 1994 – 2001 Secretary General of the Swedish Council for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Stockholm
- 1983 – 1987 Dean of the Faculty of Theology, Uppsala University
- 1976 – 2000 Full Professor, Religious Studies, Uppsala University
- 1966 – 1976 Lecturer and Assistant professor, Ethics and Philosophy of Religion, Uppsala University
- 1966 Dr. of Theology. (Ethics and Philosophy of Religion), Uppsala University
Fields of Scholarship
- Locke, Berkeley, Hume and their influence on the religious debate in the 18th century. The relevance of these debates today
- analysis of religious language
- religion and science
- philosophy of mind
- contemporary theological argumentation
- foundation of ethics
- empirical studies of views of life among ordinary people
- analysis of ideologies
Honours and Awards
- Dr. honoris causa, Åbo Academy, Finland
- Honorary Fellow, Harris Manchester College, Oxford University
- Fellow of the following Swedish royal academies: The Royal Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities *The Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences of Uppsala, The Royal Society of Sciences at Uppsala
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