Bengt Kristensson Uggla

Professor & Philosophical Advisor

Affiliation(s)
Professor of Philosophy, Culture, and Management at Åbo Akademi University, Finland.
Philosophical advisor at Gothenburg Centre for Person-Centred Care (GPCC), Sweden.

Title
What makes us human? …and who cares, in times of global destabilization?

Abstract
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Bio
Bengt Kristensson Uggla is Amos Anderson Professor in Philosophy, Culture, and Management at Åbo Akademi University (Finland), philosophical advisor and for many years visiting professor at Gothenburg Centre for Person-Centred Care (GPCC), Sweden. He has developed the field of cross disciplinary hermeneutics, mainly inspired by the work of Paul Ricoeur and is the author of fifteen books and his latest book published in English is Science as a Quest for Truth: The Interpretation Lab (2024). In 2026 he was awarded the H.M. The King’s Medal of the 8th size in the Order of the Seraphim ribbon.