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Verónica Sanz González, Ph.D.


Department of Humanities
Philosophy

Education

Ph.D. Philosophy of Science, University Complutense of Madrid (Spain) 2005-2011 – Mención de Doctorado Europeo.
M.A. Philosophy of Science, University Complutense of Madrid (Spain) 2000-2004.
B.A. Philosophy, University of Valladolid (Spain) 1999.    
Curso de Adaptación Pedagógica (Universidad de Valladolid) 1999.

Practice Areas

  • Philosophy of Science and Technology
  • Science and Technology Studies
  • Feminist Philosophy
  • Engineering and Social Justice

Research Interests

  • Title: "Visions and Versions of Biomedical Technologies"  (2013-2015) Funding Institution: Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation Amount: 38,000 €. P.I: Eulalia Pérez Sedeño.
  • Title:"Practis: Philosophy of Social and Human Technosciences" 2009–2011. Funding Institution: Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation Amount: 72,600 €. P.I: Javier Echeverría Ezponda.

Publications and Media Placements

Edited

Rudolf Seising and Verónica Sanz (Eds.) (2012), Soft Computing in Humanities and Social Sciences, Berlin-Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.

Rudolf Seising and Verónica Sanz (Eds.) (2013) Special Issue on Soft Computing in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Fuzzy Sets and Systems (An International Journal in Information Science and Engineering), Vol. 214, March 2013

Relevant Articles

Verónica Sanz (2017) "No Way Out of the Binary: A Critical History of the Scientific Production of Sex", Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society Vol. 43 No.1 (Autumn 2017): 1-27

Verónica Sanz (2016) "Gender in the 'Content' of Technology: Examples from Software Design" (In Spanish) Revista Iberoamericana de Ciencia, Tecnología y Sociedad, 11 (31): 93-1, http://www.revistacts.net/volumen-11-numero-31

Rudolf Seising and Verónica Sanz (2013) Introduction to the Special Issue "Soft Computing in the Humanities and Social Sciences", Fuzzy Sets and Systems, Vol. 214 (March, 2013): 1-5

Verónica Sanz and Sergio Guadarrama (2012): "Applying a Fuzzy Model Approach to the Classification of Sexual Differences: Beyond the Male/Female Binary", Proceedings of the 2012 Annual Meeting of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society (ISBN: 978-1-4673-2337-6): 34-39

Verónica Sanz (2012):" How Philosophy and Science and Technology Studies and Feminist Studies of Technology can be of Use for Soft Computing". In Rudolf Seising & Verónica Sanz (Eds.) Soft Computing in Hum.and Soc.Scien: 89-109

Verónica Sanz (2011): "Gender Structure, Gender Identity, Gender Symbolism and Information Technologies". In Gherab-Martin, Karim and Phillip Kalantzis-Cope (Eds.) Emerging Digital Spaces in Contemporary Society: Properties of Technology, New York: Palgrave Macmillan: 298-302

Verónica Sanz (2010): "Gender Studies of IT: from Equality Strategies to Epistemological Issues", Arno Bammé, Günter Getzinger and Berhanrd Wiesen (Eds), Yearbook 2009 of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Science, Technology and Society, Munich-Vienna: Profil: 41-62

Conference Presentations

4S (Society for Social Studies of Science) Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA. "Beyond the Male and Female Binary: A Fuzzy-Logic Model of Sex Variability". 9-12 October 2013

The 2012 Annual Meeting of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society (NAFIPS), Berkeley, California (with Sergio Guadarrama): "Applying a Fuzzy Model Approach to the Classification of Sexual Differences: Beyond the Male/Female Binary"., 6-8 August 2012

The 36th 4S Annual Meeting, Society for Social Studies of Science, Cleveland (Ohio). "Are "Alternative Paradigms in Artificial Intelligence" Alternative Enough? The Case of Soft Computing". 3-5 November, 2011

International Conference and Workshops on Higher Education, Partnership and Innovation, Budapest (Hungary) (with Ana M. González Ramos and Susana Vázquez Cupeiro) "From brain circulation to recruitment of talent: Two different frameworks to promote science and technology", 7-9 September, 2009

International Fuzzy Systems Association and European Society for Fuzzy Logic (IFSA/EUSFLAT) World Congress, Lisbon (Portugal), "Soft Computing Confronting Philosophical and Sociological Critiques to Classical AI", 20-24 de July, 2009

Organization activities

Co-organizer, Conference "INTERRUPTIONS: Feminisms, Sciences, Knowledges" Center for Science, Technology, Medicine and Society, University of California, Berkeley, 18-19 April 2014

Co-organizer, Focus Session on "Soft Computing in Science and Technology Studies", 2013 IFSA World Congress and North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society (NAFIPS) Annual Meeting, Edmonton, Canada, 24-28 June 2013.

Coordinator, BBRG Reading Group, Department of Gender and Women's Studies, University of California-Berkeley, Fall 2012

Co-organizer, Special Session "Fuzziness in our Social and Cultural Life" in The 2012 Annual Meeting of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society (NAFIPS), Berkeley, CA, 6-8 August 2012.

Co-organizer, Special Session "Soft Computing in Soft Sciences" in the World Conference on Soft Computing, San Francisco, CA, 23-26 May 2011.