Sven Ove Hansson (born 1951) is a Swedish philosopher. He is a professor ofphilosophy and chair of the Department of Philosophy and History of Technology at theRoyal Institute of Technology (KTH) inStockholm,Sweden. He is an author andscientific skeptic, with a special interest in environmentalrisk assessment, as well as indecision theory andbelief revision.[1][2]
Hansson obtained abachelor's degree inmedical science in 1972, and then worked for a Swedishtrade union, followed by a job with the SwedishSocial Democrats.He received aPhD intheoretical philosophy atUppsala University in 1991, following which he was from 1993 to 1999 forskarassistent (the Swedish equivalent of an associate professor) at Uppsala. He received a second PhD inpractical philosophy at theUniversity of Lund in 1999, and since 2000 he has been a professor at KTH; he became department head in 2005.[3]
TheSwedish 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 thekemikaliekommittén, 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 offorskningsberedningen, the Swedish government's advisory board of researchers.
Hansson has contributed to the development ofbelief revision theory, in particular, analysis of application ofthe AGM postulates.[1][6] His work is also cited in discussions ofethics in institutionaldecision-making.[7][8]Google Scholar lists 17,417 citations of his work and gives hish-index as 68 andi10-index as 271 .[9] As of 2022[update] he continues to publish on ethics,logic andpublic health in major journals.[9]
Since September 1999 he has been the Editor-in-Chief ofTheoria, the only international, peer-reviewed, philosophy journal published in Sweden. He was the founding chairperson of theSwedish Skeptics (Vetenskap och Folkbildning),[10] and is still a board member and editor of the organisation's journalFolkvett.
Hansson has criticizedanthroposophy as apseudo-science.[11][12][13]
He has published numerous articles and books in Swedish and in English.
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