Torbjörn Tännsjö

Who is Torbjörn Tännsjö?

Torbjörn Tännsjö is a Swedish professor of philosophy. He has held a chair in Practical Philosophy at Stockholm University since 2002 and he is 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. Furthermore, he is a member of the editorial board of Monash Bioethics Review, Tidskrift för politisk filosofi, and Philosophical Papers, the ethics section of the web psychiatric journal Psychomedia, and Bioethics.