Department of Philosophy

University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU

Carlos Santamaría, D11

Plaza Elhuyar, 2

20018, Donostia-San Sebastián

Spain

Tel.: +34 943 017 438

Email: sergio.uruena@ehu.eus

PhD in Philosophy, Science and Values (2022, Extraordinary Doctoral Award, International Mention, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU). MA in Logic and Philosophy of Science (2015, Extraordinary MA Award, University of Salamanca). MA in Teaching Compulsory Secondary and Pre-university Education (2014, University of Salamanca). BA in Philosophy (2013, University of Salamanca).

I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Basque Government at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU. My research is distinctly interdisciplinary, spanning fields such as political philosophy of technology, futures and anticipation studies, and science and technology studies (STS). It focuses on methodological and epistemic-political aspects of the interventive use of futures (e.g. foresight practices, socio-technical and techno-moral scenarios) to promote the anticipatory dimension of “Responsible (Research and) Innovation."

• Urueña, S. (2024). Anticipation and its degrees of critical-reflective radicality: opening up the affordances of engaging with futures to problematize STI. Journal of Responsible Innovation, 11(1), 2294537.
• Urueña, S. (2023). Enacting anticipatory heuristics: a tentative methodological proposal for steering responsible innovation. Journal of Responsible Innovation, 10(1): 2160552.
• Urueña, S. (2022). Anticipation and modal power: Opening up and closing down the momentum of sociotechnical systems. Social Studies of Science, 52(5): 783–805.
• Urueña, S. (2022). La anticipación en la búsqueda de una innovación responsable: Gradientes de radicalidad ético-política. Recerca. Revista de Pensament i Anàlisi, 27(2): 1–28.
• Urueña, S. (2021). Responsibility through Anticipations? The ‘Future Talk’ and the Quest for Plausibility in the Governance of Emerging Technologies. NanoEthics, 15(3): 271–302.
• Urueña, S., Rodríguez, H. & Ibarra, A (2021). Foresight and responsible innovation: Openness and closure in anticipatory heuristics. Futures, 134: 102852.
• Rodríguez, H., Urueña, S. & Ibarra, A. (2020). Anticipatory responsible innovation: Futures construction in the face of the techno-economic imperative. NOvation: Critical Studies of Innovation, 2: 127–146.
• Rodríguez, H., Urueña, S., Eizagirre, A., Imaz, O. (2019) (Eds.) Anticipación e innovación responsable: la construcción de futuros alternativos para la ciencia y la tecnología. Biblioteca Nueva. Madrid and Barcelona.

• Urueña, S. (2019). Understanding “plausibility”: A relational approach to the anticipatory heuristics of future scenarios. Futures, 111: 15–25.