2016-01-09
I was born in Kvlinge,
Sweden in 1951.
Homepage: http://home.abe.kth.se/~soh/
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1972 |
Bachelor
of Medicine, University of Lund. |
|
1981
|
Bachelor
of Arts, Uppsala University. |
|
1991 |
PhD
in theoretical philosophy (Belief Base Dynamics), Uppsala University. |
|
1992
|
Docent
(corresponds to German Habilitation) in theoretical philosophy, Uppsala
University. |
|
1999 |
PhD
in practical philosophy (Structures of Value), University of Lund. |
|
1999
|
Docent
in practical philosophy, University of Lund. |
|
1975
– 1978 |
Official
of the Swedish Factory Workers' Union, responsible for industrial medicine
and toxicology. |
|
1978
– 1983 |
Official
at the headquarters of the Swedish Social Democrats. (During that time I began
to study philosophy in my spare time.) |
|
1983
– 1985 |
Secretary
general of a government committee responsible for reforming the control and
regulation of hazardous chemicals in Sweden (kemikommissionen). (The major
outcomes were a new legislation and a new government agency, the National
Chemicals Inspectorate.) |
|
1985
– 1986 |
Full-time
popular science writer. |
|
1986
– 1991 |
Full-time
graduate student in theoretical philosophy, Uppsala University. |
|
1993
– 1999 |
Associate
professor ("forskarassistent"), Uppsala University. |
|
1999
– 2000 |
Research
position at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm. |
|
2000– |
Professor
in Philosophy at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm. |
I have been a member of the
Government Research Advisory Board (forskningsberedningen, 2000-2005). I have
also been member of three Boards of Directors appointed by the 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). I have
been member of four temporary Commissions appointed by Government, three on
environmental policies and one on social insurance. I am currently member of the
Stockholm Regional Ethical Review Board and a deputy member of the Swedish Gene
Technology Advisory Board.
Since
September 1999 I am the editor of Theoria,
the only international, refereed, philosophy journal published in Sweden. Since
February 2013 I am the editor of the book series Outstanding Contributions to Logic (Studia Logica Library). I am
member of the editorial boards of Synthese,
Studia Logica, and the Journal of Philosophical Logic, area
editor of the book series Logic,
Argumentation and Reasoning, and member of the scientific editorial board
of Philosophy & Technology and
the advisory board of the book series Philosophy
of Engineering and Technology (Springer).
From
2001 to 2003 I was vice chairperson of Riskkollegiet, a Swedish association for
risk research.
I
was President of the international Society for Philosophy and Technology in
2011-2013. I have been a board member since 2007.
Since
2009 I am a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA).
I
was the founding chairperson of the Swedish Skeptics (Vetenskap och
folkbildning) and member of its board 1982-2013. I am editor of the
organizations journal Folkvett.
I was
head of the Division
of Philosophy (KTH) 2000-2015 and head of the Department of Philosophy and History
(KTH) 2005-2010 and 2014-2015.
Erik Olsson (theoretical
philosophy 1997), Mikael Johannesson (systems ecology 1998), Eduardo Ferm
(computer science 1999), Christina Rudn (toxicology 2002), Martin Peterson
(philosophy 2003), Per Sandin (philosophy 2005), Anders Persson, (philosophy
2006), Eva Hedfors (philosophy 2006), Madeleine Hayenhielm (philosophy 2007), Hlne Hermansson
(philosophy 2007), Elin Palm (philosophy 2007), Barbro Bjrkman (philosophy
2008), Holger Rosencrantz (philosophy 2009), Kalle Grill (philosophy 2009),
Niklas Mller (philosophy 2009), Lars Lindblom (philosophy 2009), Anna-Karin
Lindberg (risk and safety 2010), Johan Gustafsson (philosophy, 2011), Linda
Johansson (philosophy, 2013), Qian Ding (risk and safety, 2013), Sara Belfrage
(philosophy, 2014), Per Norstrm (philosophy, 2014), Karim Jebari (philosophy,
2014), Mikael Dubois (philosophy, 2015), Patrik Baard (philosophy, 2016).
Martin Peterson (2001), Per
Sandin, (2002), Anders Persson (2004), Barbro Bjrkman (2005), Elin Palm (2005),
Eva Hedfors (2005) Rikard Levin (2005), Niklas Mller (2006), Hlne Hermansson
(2006), Madeleine Hayenhielm (2006), Holger Rosencrantz (2006), Kalle Grill (2006),
Mikael Dubois (2007), Birgitte Wandall (2007), Marion Godman (2009), Johan E
Gustafsson (2009), Linda Johansson (2011), Per Norstrm (2011), Karim Jebari
(2012), Thomas Falk (2013), Gunilla Rooke (2013), Dan Munter (2013), Patrik
Baard (2014), Anna Stenkvist (2014), Payam Moula (2015), Jesper Jerkert (2015).
My list of publications
includes well over 300 publications in international refereed journals. See http://people.kth.se/~soh/sohpub.htm.