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, and Associate Research Fellow of the "Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies" (ESDiT) programme. 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.