Everything about Torbj Rn T Nnsj totally explained
Torbjörn Tännsjö is a
Swedish professor of
philosophy who was born in
1946. He holds a chair in
Practical Philosophy at
Stockholm University since
2002 and he's Affiliated Professor of Medical Ethics at Karolinska Institute. Tännsjö was Associate Professor of Philosophy at Stockholm University from
1976 to
1993 and Research Fellow in
Political Philosophy at the
Swedish Council for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences between 1993 and
1995. Thereafter, he was a professor of Practical Philosophy at
Göteborg University 1995-
2001.
Tännsjö is a member of the
medical ethics board of the faculty of medicine at Göteborg University. He is also a member of the medical ethics committee of The National Board of Health and Welfare (the Swedish Government agency responsible for the supervision, evaluation and monitoring of social services, health care and medical services, dental care, environmental health, and control of communicable diseases). Furthermore, he's a member of the editorial board of
Monash Bioethics Review,
Tidskrift för politisk filosofi, (
Journal of Political Philosophy), and
Philosophical Papers, the
ethics section of the web psychiatric journal
Psychomedia, and Bioethics.
Tännsjö is one of the few Swedish philosophers who is frequently heard in the public debate. His distinctly
utilitarian views have made him a controversial figure among some people, notably the medical establishment and the Swedish
Christian Democrats.
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Tännsjö's most recent work is "Global Democracy: The Case for a World Government" (Edinburgh UP) written in connection with the research project Democracy Unbound supported by the Swedish Research Council. The royalties from the sales of the book are being donated to Oxfam.
Publications
- Moral Realism (Savage, N.J.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1990)
- Conservatism for Our Time (London och New York: Routledge, 1990)
- Populist Democracy. A Defence (London och New York: Routledge, 1993)
- Hedonistic Utilitarianism (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1998)
- Coercive Care: The Ethics of Choice in Health and Medicine (London and New York: Routledge, 1999)
- Values in Sport: Elitism, Nationalism, Gender Equality and the Scientific Manufacture of Winners (London och New York: E&FN Spon/Routledge, 2000)
- Understanding Ethics: An Introduction to Moral Theory (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2002)
- Terminal Sedation: Euthanasia in Disguise (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2004).
- The Repugnant Conclusion. Essays on Population Ethics (Dordrecht. Kluwer, 2004).
- Genetic Technology and Sport (London and New York: Routledge, 2005)
- Global Democracy: The Case for a World Government (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008)
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