Sven Ove Hansson
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'''Sven Ove Hansson''' (born [[1951]]) is a [[Sweden|Swedish]] academic, philosopher, author and [[Scientific skepticism|skeptic]]. He has a special interest in environmental risk assessment.
==Career==
Hansson obtained a degree in medicine in 1972, and then worked for a Swedish trades union, followed by a job with the Swedish [[Swedish Social Democratic Party|Social Democrats]].
He received a PhD-degree in theoretical philosophy at [[Uppsala University]] in 1991, and a second PhD-degree in practical philosophy at the [[University of Lund]] in 1999.
Hansson has been a member of three Boards of Directors appointed by the [[Government of Sweden|Swedish Government]]:
*the Products Control Board (1976–1982; the predecessor of the National Chemicals Inspectorate),
*the National Board for Spent Nuclear Fuel (1981–1992) and
*the Natural Science Foundation (1989–1992).
He was a member of two temporary Commissions on environmental policies appointed by the Swedish Government.
*In 1999–2000 he was expert advisor to a temporary Swedish government committee the ''kemikaliekommittén''.
*Professor Hansson is a co-opted member of the board of the MISTRA project New Strategy for the risk management of chemical substances.
Since September 1999 he has been the editor of [[Theoria]], the only international, refereed, philosophy journal published in Sweden.
Since 2001 he has been vice chairperson of Riskkollegiet, a Swedish association for risk research.
He was the founding chairperson of the [[Föreningen Vetenskap och Folkbildning|Swedish Skeptics]] (Vetenskap och Folkbildning), and is still a board member and editor of the organisation’s journal ''Folkvett''.
He is currently professor in philosophy and Head of the Department of Philosophy and the History of Technology, [[Royal Institute of Technology]], Stockholm, Sweden.
Since December 2000 Professor Hansson has been a member of ''forskningsberedningen'', the Swedish government’s advisory board of researchers .
==Publications==
He has published numerous articles and books in Swedish and in English.
Titles of English books are:
*Setting the Limit. Occupational Health Standards and the Limits of Science, Oxford University Press 1998
*''A Textbook of Belief Dynamics, Theory Change and Database Updating'', Kluwer 1999
*''The Structure of Values and Norms'', Cambridge University Press 2001
Some of his articles in English:
* [http://www.waldorfcritics.org/active/articles/Hansson.html Is Anthroposophy Science?] On line copy of article in ''Conceptus XXV'' (1991), No. 64, pp. 37-49.
* [http://www.skepticreport.com/newage/steiner.htm The Racial Teachings of Rudolf Steiner] ''Skeptic Report'', June/ July 2005.<ref>According to the original publication of the article in Swedish (Folkvett nr 3/2004.), it was written in response to [http://fof.se/?id=_diskutera/trad.lasso%7C03815b criticism] of the Swedish branch of the CSICOP for its publication the previous year of a critical anthology on anthroposophy as being repeatedly unreliable.</ref>
==Notes==
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==External links==
* [http://www.infra.kth.se/~soh/ Homepage]
* [http://nanobio-raise.org/groups/writers/resumes/document.2006-02-09.8094174889 Brief biography] at NanoBio-RAISE
* [http://www.ethiek.tudelft.nl/conference2002/folder.pdf Brief biography] at Research in Ethics and Engineering Conference, University of Delft, NL, April 2002 (pdf)
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