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Researcher
- Theoretical Philosophy
- Department of Philosophy
Contact information
E-mail henrik.thorenfil.luse
Room LUX:B471
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30
I am a researcher in theoretical philosophy specialising in the philosophy of science. My primary research interests concerns various theoretical and methodological issues in fields such as sustainability science, climate science, and the environmental sciences. More specifically research topics to which I have devoted time in the past are scientific integration and interdisciplinarity and values in science and science in policy making. I have written papers on important concepts in sustainability science such as resilience, ecosystem services, and relational values. I am currently leading a Formas funded project on risks and values in climate economic models together with researchers from MCC in Berlin.
Research
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Books (1)
Articles (21)
- Kause, A., De Bruin, W. B., Persson, J., Thorén, H., Olsson, L., Wallin, A., Dessai, S. & Vareman, N. (2022). Confidence levels and likelihood terms in IPCC reports : a survey of experts from different scientific disciplines. Climatic Change, 173. Springer.
- Olsson, L., Thorén, H., Harnesk, D. & Persson, J. (2022). Ethics of Probabilistic Extreme Event Attribution in Climate Change Science : A Critique. Earth's Future, 10. John Wiley & Sons Inc..
- Soininen, N., Raymond, C., Tuomisto, H., Ruotsalainen, L., Thorén, H., Horcea-Miclu, A.-I., Stojanovic, M., Lehtinen, S., Mazac, R., Lamuela, C., Korpelainen, N., Vainio, A., Toivanen, R., McPhearson, T. & Nagatsu, M. (2022). Bridge over troubled water : Managing compatibility and conflict among thought collectives in sustainability science. Sustainability Science, 17, 27-44. Springer.
- Thorén, H. & Persson, J. (2022). Problem-Feeding as a Model for Interdisciplinary Research. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Taylor & Francis.
- Thorén, H., Persson, J. & Olsson, L. (2021). A pluralist approach to epistemic dilemmas in event attribution science. Climatic Change, 169. Springer.
- Thorén, H., Soininen, N. & Kotamäki, N. (2021). Scientific models in legal judgements : The relationship between law and environmental science as problem-feeding. Environmental Science and Policy, 124, 478-484. Elsevier.
- Nagatsu, M., Davis, T., DesRoches, T., Koskinen, I., MacLeod, M., Stojanovic, M. & Thorén, H. (2020). Philosophy of science for sustainability science. Sustainability Science, 15, 1807-1817. Springer.
- Olsson, L., Carton, W., Clough, Y., Crews, T. E., Friberg, M., Friedmann, H., Germundsson, T., Isgren, E., Steen Jensen, E., Mårtensson, L.-M., Negendanck, C., Thorén, H., Wallander, H. & Westerbergh, A. (2019). Sverige kan leda en revolution i jordbruket. Svenska Dagbladet, SvD Opinion. Svenska Dagbladet.
- Stålhammar, S. & Thorén, H. (2019). Three perspectives on relational values of nature. Sustainability Science. Springer.
- Thorén, H., Persson, J. & Vareman, N. (2019). Osäkerhet, tvärvetenskap och klimatförändringarna : en vetenskapsfilosofisk betraktelse av IPCCs osäkerhetsramverk. Filosofisk tidskrift, 2019. Thales.
- Persson, J., Hornborg, A., Olsson, L. & Thorén, H. (2018). Toward an alternative dialogue between the social and natural sciences. Ecology and Society, 23. The Resilience Alliance.
- Persson, J., Thorén, H. & Olsson, L. (2018). The interdisciplinary decision problem : Popperian optimism and Kuhnian pessimism in forestry. Ecology and Society, 23. The Resilience Alliance.
- Thorén, H. & Olsson, L. (2018). Is resilience a normative concept?. Resilience - International Policies, Practices and Discourses, 6, 112-128. Taylor & Francis.
- Thorén, H. & Stålhammar, S. (2018). Ecosystem services between integration and economics imperialism. Ecology and Society, 23. The Resilience Alliance.
- Olsson, L., Jerneck, A., Thorén, H., Persson, J. & O Byrne, D. (2015). Why resilience is unappealing to social science : Theoretical and empirical investigations of the scientific use of resilience. Science Advances, 1. American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
- Thorén, H. & Breian, L. (2015). Stepping stone or stumbling block? : Mode 2 knowledge production in sustainability science. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. Elsevier.
- Thorén, H. & Persson, J. (2015). Resilience: Some Philosophical Remarks on Defining Ostensively and Stipulatively. Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy, 11, 64-74. Proquest.
- Hepburn, B. & Thorén, H. (2014). Integrating interdisciplinary problem solving through process. Historielärarnas Förenings Årsskrift. Historielärarnas förening.
- Thorén, H. (2014). Resilience as a Unifying Concept. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 28, 303-324. Taylor & Francis.
- Thorén, H. & Persson, J. (2013). The philosophy of interdisciplinarity: sustainability science and problem-feeding. Journal for General Philosophy of Science, 44, 337-355. Springer.
- Malmgren, H., Radovic, S., Thorén, H. & Haglund, B. (2010). A philosophical view on concepts in psychiatry. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 33, 66-72. Elsevier.
Book chapters (7)
- Thorén, H. & Harnesk, D. (accepted/in press). Critical social science and resilience. In Boyd, E. (Ed.) Routledge Handbook of Social and Ecological Resilience. Routledge.
- Nagatsu, M. & Thorén, H. (2021). Sustainability science as a management science : Beyond the natural-social divide. In Ludwig, D., Koskinen, I., Mncube, Z., Poliseli, L. & Reyes-Galindo, L. (Eds.) Global epistemologies and philosophies of science. Routledge.
- Thorén, H. (2021). Resilience. In Kreig, P. & Toivonen, R. (Eds.) Situating Sustainability : A Handbook of Context and Concepts (pp. 79-90). Helsinki University Press.
- Thorén, H., Nagatsu, M. & Schönach, P. (2021). Interdisciplinarity. In Kreig, P. & Toivonen, R. (Eds.) Situating Sustainability : A Handbook of Contexts and Concepts (pp. 21-37). Helsinki University Press.
- Thorén, H. (2019). Against general resilience. In Burayidi, M., Allen, A., Twigg, J. & Wamsler, C. (Eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Urban Resilience (pp. 26-34). Routledge.
- Olsson, L., Jerneck, A., Thorén, H., Persson, J. & O Byrne, D. (2016). A Social Science Perspective on Resilience. In Chandler, D. & Coaffee, J. (Eds.) The Routledge Handbook of International Resilience (pp. 49-62). Routledge.
- Thorén, H. (2015). History and philosophy of science as an interdisciplinary field of problem transfers. In Wagenknecht, S., Nersessian, N. J. & Andersen, H. (Eds.) Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics, Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics (pp. 147-159), 21. Springer International Publishing.
Conference contributions (3)
- Thorén, H. (accepted/in press). History and philosophy of science as an interdisciplinary field of problem transfers.
- Thorén, H. & Persson, J. (2011). Philosophy of Interdisciplinarity: Problem‐Feeding, Conceptual Drift, and Methodological Migration. PhilSci Archive.
- Thorén, H. & Gerlee, P. (2010). Weak Emergence and Complexity. In Fellerman, H., Dörr, M., Hanczy, M., Ladegaard Laursen, L., Mauer, S., Merkle, D., Monnard, P.-A., Støy, K. & Rasmussen, S. (Eds.) Artificial Life XII Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (pp. 879-886). MIT Press.
Newspaper articles (13)
- Gerlee, P., Thorén, H. & Lundh, T. (2020). Alla modeller är fel - några är användbara. Svenska Dagbladet Debatt. Svenska Dagbladet.
- Adman, P., Alvesson, M., Andersson, E., Barmark, M. M., Brink, E., Busch, H., Carton, W., Clough, Y., Djurfeldt, G., Gabrielsson, S., Gren, N., Guldåker, N., Hedlund, A., Hornborg, A., Isaksson, E., Islar, M., Jack, T., Johansson, B.-M., Kjellberg, A., Knaggård, Å., Krause, T., Larsson, M., Malm, A., Rydström, H., Ramasar, V., Roos, A., Rubenson, S., Rypi, A., Schmitt, I., Steen, K., Stripple, J., Thoni, T., Takedomi Karlsson, M., Thorén, H., Wahl, D., Wamsler, C., Wemrell, M. & Österman, M. (2019). 171 forskare: ”Vi vuxna bör också klimatprotestera”. Dagens nyheter (DN debatt). Dagens Nyheter.
- Brandstedt, E. & Thorén, H. (2019). Er klimatpolitik håller inte, Ulf Kristersson. Aftonbladet. Aftonbladet Hierta AB.
- Thorén, H., Krause, T., Stålhammar, S. & Islar, M. (2019). Minskade utsläpp räcker inte för att rädda mångfalden. ETC.
- Thorén, H. (2018). Utan politiska beslut kommer det inte att sluta brinna i Kalifornien. Sydsvenskan Kultur. Sydsvenska Dagbladet.
- Thorén, H. (2018). Vi kan lära av vikingarna. Sydsvenskan Kultur. Sydsvenska Dagbladet.
- Thorén, H. & Boda, C. (2018). Hotet från Donald Trump kvarstår efter valet i USA. Dagens arena.
- Thorén, H. & Boda, C. (2018). Republikanerna har underminerat demokratin – det märktes i veckan. ETC.
- Brandstedt, E. & Thorén, H. (2017). Hög tid att handla i klimatfrågan. ETC.
- Thorén, H. (2017). Är vi på väg mot en ny guldålder?. Sydsvenskan Kultur. Sydsvenska Dagbladet.
- Thorén, H. (2017). Akademiker och andra storutsläppare måste sluta flyga. Sydsvenskan Kultur. Sydsvenska Dagbladet.
- Thorén, H. (2017). Donald Trump kan paradoxalt nog leda till en starkare miljörörelse. Sydsvenskan Kultur. Sydsvenska Dagbladet.
- Brandstedt, E. & Thorén, H. (2016). En realistisk klimatomställning kräver en flygskatt. Sydsvenskan. Sydsvenska Dagbladet.
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Researcher
- Theoretical Philosophy
- Department of Philosophy
Contact information
E-mail henrik.thorenfil.luse
Room LUX:B471
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30