# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/torbjorn-tannsjo
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:22:16.619Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/torbjorn-tannsjo"
name: "Torbjörn Tännsjö"
slug: "torbjorn-tannsjo"
description: "Ulf Torbjörn Harald Tännsjö is a Swedish professor of philosophy and public intellectual. 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 Research Council in the Humanities and Social Sciences between 1993 and 1995. Thereafter, he was a professor of Practical Philosophy at University of Gothenburg 1995–2001. He has twice been a Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Uppsala, Sweden."
tagline: "Swedish philosopher"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Torbj%C3%B6rn_T%C3%A4nnsj%C3%B6_2007.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Sweden"
  isoCode: "SE"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1946-12-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.75
  momentum:             2.038834951456311
  historical:           4.416128
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0879369/"
    handle:    "nm0879369"
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    title: "Torbjörn Tännsjö"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Torbjörn Tännsjö"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump