Per Johan Emanuel Sandin

Dept. of Crop Production Ecology, Agricultural cropping systems

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+46761484606

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+4618673342

Senior Lecturer in bioethics and environmental ethics since 2009. Associate Professor (docent) in philosophy (KTH, Stockholm) since 2013. My research has concerned environmental ethics and naturalness, the ethics of crisis and disasters, risk and the precautionary principle, research ethics and publication ethics, and the ethics of citizen science.

Research

Selected Publications

Sandin, P. (2025). Treading Lightly, Agriculture, and Focality. In: Kendig, C., Thompson, P.B. (eds) The Social Epistemology of Engineered Agricultural Ecologies. The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics, vol 37. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-04450-1_5

Sandin, P., Baard, P., Bülow, W., Helgesson, G. 2024 Authorship and Citizen Science: Seven Heuristic Rules. Sci Eng Ethics 30, 53. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-024-00516-x

Baard, P., & Sandin, P. (2022). Principlism and citizen science: the possibilities and limitations of principlism for guiding responsible citizen science conduct. Research Ethics, 18(4), 304–318. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470161221116558

Sandin, P., Robaey, Z. (2021). Modern Biotechnology, Agriculture, and Ethics. In: Poff, D.C., Michalos, A.C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23514-1_1256-1.

Sandin, P., Munthe, C. and Edvardsson Björnberg, K. (2021): Technology Neutrality in European Regulation of GMOs, Ethics, Policy & Environment, DOI: 10.1080/21550085.2020.1865085

Edvardsson Björnberg, K.; Röcklinsberg, H. & Sandin, P. (2020). ‘Cornwallism’ andArguments against Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions. Environmental Values. 29(6) https://doi.org/10.3197/096327119X15579936382554

Sandin, P. & Peterson, M. (2019). Is the Precautionary Principle a Midlevel Principle? Ethics, Policy & Environment. https://doi.org/10.1080/21550085.2019.1581417

Sandin, P. (2018). Conceptualizations of disasters in Philosophy In: O’Mathúna D., Dranseika V., Gordijn B. (eds) Disasters: Core Concepts and Ethical Theories. Advancing Global Bioethics, vol 11. Springer, Cham. (2018). Open Access here.

Sandin, P. (2017). How to Label ‘Natural’ Foods: a Matter of Complexity. Food Ethics 1(2), 97-107, 2017. Open Access here.

Sandin, P. (2015). The Profession and the Killer App, or What Environmental Ethicists Might Learn from Bioethics: A Commentary. Ethics, Policy & Environment 18(3), 2015.

Moula, P. and Sandin, P. (2015). Evaluating ethical tools. Metaphilosophy 46, 263–279, 2015.

Peterson, M. & Sandin, P. (2013). The last man argument revisited. Journal of Value Inquiry 37, 121-133.

Teaching

I teach extensively for students, PhD candidates and staff on research ethics and philosophy of science, bioethics, and environmental ethics.