2011-12-10
I
was born in Kvlinge, Sweden in 1951.
Homepage:
http://www.infra.kth.se/~soh/
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1972 |
Bachelor
of Medicine, University of Lund. |
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1981
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Bachelor
of Arts, Uppsala University. |
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1991 |
PhD
in theoretical philosophy (Belief Base Dynamics), Uppsala University. |
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1992
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Docent
(corresponds to German Habilitation) in theoretical philosophy, Uppsala
University. |
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1999 |
PhD
in practical philosophy (Structures of Value), University of Lund. |
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1999
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Docent
in practical philosophy, University of Lund. |
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1975 – 1978 |
Official of the Swedish Factory Workers' Union,
responsible for industrial medicine and toxicology. |
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1978 – 1983 |
Official at the headquarters of the Swedish Social
Democrats. (During that time I began to study philosophy in my spare time.) |
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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.) |
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1985 – 1986 |
Full-time popular science writer. |
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1986 – 1991 |
Full-time graduate student in theoretical
philosophy, Uppsala University. |
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1993 – 1999 |
Associate professor ("forskarassistent"),
Uppsala University. |
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1999 – 2000 |
Research position at the Royal Institute of
Technology (KTH), Stockholm. |
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2000– |
Professor and Head of the Division of 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.
Since September 1999 I am the editor of Theoria, the only international,
refereed, philosophy journal published in Sweden. I am member of the editorial
boards of Synthese and the Journal of Philosophical Logic, 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 am President of the international Society for
Philosophy and Technology since 2011. 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). I am still a board member and editor of the organizations
journal Folkvett.
I
was head of the Department of Philosophy and the History of Technology (KTH) in
2005-2010.
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).
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).
My list of publications
includes well over 250 publications in international refereed journals. See http://www.infra.kth.se/~soh/sohpub.htm