Biography
Hanne Andersen is Professor in the Department of Science Education at the University of Copenhagen. As a historian and philosopher of science situated within a Faculty of Science, she is deeply engaged in making history, philosophy and sociology of science relevant to researchers and educators as well as to academic leaders and policy makers. Her research interests include philosophy of interdisciplinarity, accountability and quality control in contemporary research, responsible conduct of research, science and values, scientific change, and the nature of science and science education. She has previously worked at the medical school at the University of Copenhagen and still has a strong interest in topics such as history and philosophy of epidemiology, the concepts of disease, and causality and probability in the health sciences.
Dr. Andersen teaches philosophy of science to science students and responsible conduct of science to junior researchers from the sciences.
As an ‘engaged’ philosopher of science, Hanne is engaged in local and national initiatives to develop guidelines for good scientific practice that can be recognized as relevant and important by practicing scientists, and neither as abstract rules that do not relate to actual practices nor as over-detailed prescriptions that are seen as missing the point. She is also engaged in developing curricula for training in responsible conduct of science from the bachelor to the PhD level – and beyond!
Another strong interest is analyses of the development of contemporary science and the development of a philosophy of interdisciplinarity that can inform administrators and policy makers and help resolving some of the ‘interdisciplinary paradoxes’ and ‘tensions’.
Representative publications
- Andersen, H. (2022): Scientific progress and interdisciplinarity, in Y. Shan (ed.): New Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Progress. Taylor & Francis, new York, s. 374-391.
- Andersen, H. (2021): Philosophy of scientific malpractice, SATS – Nothern European Journal for Philosophy.
- Andersen, H. (2016): Collaboration, Interdisciplinarity and the Epistemology of Contemporary Science, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science A 56(1):1-12
- Andersen, H. (2014): Co-Author Responsibility, EMBO reports , 15: 914-918
- Andersen, H. (2014): Epistemic dependence in contemporary science: Practices and malpractices, in L. Soler (ed.): Science after the practice turn, Routledge, pp. 161-173.
- Andersen, H. & S. Wagenknecht (2012): Epistemic dependence in interdisciplinary research, in Synthese 190(11): 1881-1890.
- Andersen, H. (2012): The Second Essential Tension: On Tradition and Innovation in Interdisciplinary Research, in Topoi 32(1): 3-8.
- Andersen, H. (2011): Conceptual development in interdisciplinary research, in Feest & Steinle (eds): Scientific Concepts and Investigative Practices, Kluwer, pp. 271-292.
- Folker, A.P., H. Andersen & P. Sandøe (2008): Implicit normativity in scientific advice – values in nutrition scientists’ decisions to give public advice, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 54: 199-206.