Ver贸nica Sanz Gonz谩lez, Ph.D.
Department of Humanities
Philosophy
Education
Ph.D. Philosophy of Science, University Complutense of Madrid (Spain) 2005-2011 鈥�
Menci贸n 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 Adaptaci贸n Pedag贸gica (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 鈧�. P.I: Eulalia P茅rez Sede帽o.
- Title:"Practis: Philosophy of Social and Human Technosciences" 2009鈥�2011. Funding Institution: Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation Amount: 72,600 鈧�. P.I: Javier Echeverr铆a Ezponda.
Publications and Media Placements
Edited
Rudolf Seising and Ver贸nica Sanz (Eds.) (2012), Soft Computing in Humanities and Social Sciences, Berlin-Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.
Rudolf Seising and Ver贸nica 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
Ver贸nica 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
Ver贸nica Sanz (2016) "Gender in the 'Content' of Technology: Examples from Software Design" (In Spanish) Revista Iberoamericana de Ciencia, Tecnolog铆a y Sociedad, 11 (31): 93-1, http://www.revistacts.net/volumen-11-numero-31
Rudolf Seising and Ver贸nica 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
Ver贸nica 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
Ver贸nica Sanz (2012):" How Philosophy and Science and Technology Studies and Feminist Studies of Technology can be of Use for Soft Computing". In Rudolf Seising & Ver贸nica Sanz (Eds.) Soft Computing in Hum.and Soc.Scien: 89-109
Ver贸nica 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
Ver贸nica Sanz (2010): "Gender Studies of IT: from Equality Strategies to Epistemological Issues", Arno Bamm茅, Gu虉nter 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. Gonz谩lez Ramos and Susana V谩zquez 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 "", 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.