Sven Ove Hansson
Sven Ove Hansson (born 1951) is a Swedish philosopher. He is a professor of
Career
Hansson obtained a bachelor's degree in medical science in 1972, and then worked for a Swedish trade union, followed by a job with the Swedish Social Democrats. He received a
The Swedish Government appointed Hansson to 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 continues to write on radiation exposure risk assessment.[4] He was also a member of two temporary Commissions on environmental policies appointed by the Swedish Government, expert advisor to a 1999–2000 Swedish government committee the kemikaliekommittén, and a member of the board of the MISTRA project New Strategy for the risk management of chemical substances. Hansson's contributions on theories of risk assessment have been cited as recently as 2012.[5]
Since December 2000, Hansson has been a member of forskningsberedningen, the Swedish government's advisory board of researchers.
Hansson has contributed to the development of
Since September 1999 he has been the Editor-in-Chief of Theoria, the only international, peer-reviewed, philosophy journal published in Sweden. He was the founding chairperson of the Swedish Skeptics (Vetenskap och Folkbildning),[10] and is still a board member and editor of the organisation's journal Folkvett.
Hansson has criticized
Publications
He has published numerous articles and books in Swedish and in English.
Books in English
- Decision Theory: A Brief Introduction (PDF). Stockholm: Royal Institute of Technology(KTH). 2005 [1994].
- Setting the Limit. Occupational Health Standards and the Limits of Science. New York: OCLC 37533943.
- A Textbook of Belief Dynamics, Theory Change and Database Updating. Dordrecht: OCLC 39856021.
- The Structure of Values and Norms. Cambridge, UK: OCLC 44841554.
- The Ethics of Risk: Ethical Analysis in an Uncertain World. New York: OCLC 842208555.
Selected journal articles in English
- "New operators for theory change". .
- "Dimensions of risk". .
- "Belief contraction without recovery". S2CID 206777162.
- "Reversing the Levi identity". S2CID 206788140.
- Fuhrmann, André; — (January 1994). "A survey of multiple contractions" (PDF). S2CID 7246932. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2014-12-22.
- "Kernel contraction" (PDF). JSTOR 2275912. Archived from the original(PDF) on 12 May 2014.
- "Semi-revision". .
- "A survey of non-prioritized belief revision". S2CID 117026488.
- Sandin, Per; Peterson, Martin; —; Rudén, Christina; et al. (2002). "Five charges against the precautionary principle". Journal of Risk Research. 5 (4): 287–299. S2CID 145226582.
References
- ^ S2CID 27170256.
- ^ Yamin, Tughral (2012). "An appreciation of the Pakistani Military thought process". Strategic Studies. 32 (2–3). Retrieved 2014-05-09 – via ProQuest.
- Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). Archivedfrom the original on 2013-09-17.
- S2CID 144907833.
- S2CID 144300032.
- S2CID 15272664.
- ^ Fischer, Robert (30 December 2008). "European governance still technocratic? New modes of governance for food safety regulation in the European Union". European Integration Online Papers. 12: 1–26. Retrieved 2014-05-09 – via ProQuest.
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- ^ a b "Sven Ove Hansson". Google Scholar. Retrieved 2022-08-24.
- ^ Jerkert, Jesper; Hansson, Sven Ove (July–August 2006). "A Swedish professorship in parapsychology". Skeptical Inquirer. Vol. 30, no. 4. p. 8. Retrieved 2014-05-09 – via ProQuest.
- ^ Hansson, Sven Ove (1991). "Is anthroposophy science?". Conceptus XXV. No. 64. pp. 37–49. Archived from the original on 2002-04-20 – via waldorfcritics.org.
- ^ Hansson, Sven Ove (1 June 2005). "The racial teachings of Rudolf Steiner". Skeptic Report. According to the original publication of the article in Swedish (Folkvett nr 3/2004.), it was written in response to criticism of the Swedish branch of the CSICOP for its publication the previous year of a critical anthology on anthroposophy as being repeatedly unreliable.
- ^ Dugan, Dan; Daar, Judy (1994). "Are Rudolf Steiner's Waldorf schools 'non-sectarian?'". Free Inquiry.[dead link]
External links
- Official website
- List of Hansson's publications in English
- Prof Sven Ove Hansson (Brief biography at NanoBio-RAISE) at the Wayback Machine (archived September 29, 2007)
- (Brief biography) in Research in Ethics and Engineering Conference, University of Delft, NL, April 2002 (program) at the Wayback Machine (archived May 29, 2005)