Anders Jeffner#


Anders Jeffner
Membership Number:1915
Membership type:ORDINARY
Section:PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY & RELIGIOUS STUDIES
Elected:1999
Main Country of Residence:SWEDEN



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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
  • Foundation of ethics
  • Locke, Berkeley, Hume and their influence on the religious debate in the 18th century
  • Analysis of religious language
  • Analysis of ideologies
  • Religion and science
  • Contemporary theological argumentation
  • Philosophy of mind
  • Empirical studies of views of life among ordinary people

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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