Department of Philosophy

University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU & University of Twente

Carlos Santamaría, D8

Plaza Elhuyar, 2

20018 Donostia Spain

Email: sergio.uruena@ehu.eus | s.uruenalopez@utwente.nl

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. I am also an Associate Research Fellow of the Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies (ESDiT) programme and a Postdoctoral Guest Researcher at the University of Twente (in the Netherlands). 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. (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.

Work in progress:

• The domestication of anticipation in RRI-thematic projects funded by the Research Council of Norway
• Anticipatory procedures/methods in ethics and STS
• Assessing the degrees of openness & reflexive radicalities of interventive anticipatory exercises

My most recent talks include:

• Urueña, S. (September 25, 2023). “How disruptive are our anticipatory practices? A tentative analytical tool for assessing anticipation”. Workshop - Ethics of Disruptive Emerging Technologies (ESDiT) program. Social Impact Factory (Utrecht, The Netherlands).
• Urueña, S. (September 21, 2023). "Anticipation and Modal Power: Challenges for Decentralizing Futures Circulations". Emerging Technologies and Societal Transformations Conference. University of Twente (Enschede, The Netherlands).
• Urueña, S. (September 14, 2023). "The enactment of anticipation in fostering responsible innovation". Tech & Values Colloquium. University of Twente (Enschede, The Netherlands).

• Urueña, S.; Rodríguez, H.; Ibarra, A (July 12, 2023). "Unveiling Networks: An Analytic-Deconstructive Instrument for Interventive-Anticipatory Practices". Open anticipations in research and policy (experiences, methods, concepts). University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU (Donostia-San Sebastián).