Sven Ove Hansson 5471105 193053881 2008-02-21T15:58:22Z RogDel 6192846 Removed the redundant comma in the 1st sentence '''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== <references/> ==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) {{DEFAULTSORT:Hansson, Sven Ove}} [[Category:1951 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Skeptics]] [[Category:Swedish people]] [[Category:Swedish scholars and academics]] [[sv:Sven Ove Hansson]]