Franz M. Wuketits

Franz M. Wuketits
Franz Wuketits (2007)
Born	Franz Manfred Wuketits 5 January 1955 Parndorf, Burgenland, Austria
Occupation	Writer & science journalist university teacher
Language	German
Nationality	Austrian

Franz Manfred Wuketits (born Parndorf 1955) is an Austrian biologist, university teacher and epistemologist. He has written extensively on epistemology, the history and theory of biology, evolution theory, evolutionary ethics, evolutionary epistemology and sociobiology.

Wuketits is co-founder of the Austrian citizen initiative "Mein Veto" ("My veto") which campaigns against state encroachment in areas of personal liberty and morality. The Initiative is particularly well supported among Austria's relatively large Intellectual class, and includes among its financial backers the tobacco corporation BAT.

Between 1973 and 1978 Wuketits studied zoology, paleontology, philosophy and scientific theory at the University of Vienna. He received his doctorate in 1978, and progressed, still at Vienna, to a habilitation qualification in 1980 with a paper entitled "Scientific theory with particular reference to the Life sciences"

In 1982 he received national recognition in the form of the award of the Austrian Prize for Scientific Journalism.

From 1987 till 2004 he was employed at the University of Graz where he taught the philosophy of biology. He also had guest professorships at several other universities including the Vienna University of Technology (1998–2004) and, in Palma de Majorca, at the University of the Balearic Islands (2006, 2008, 2009, 2010).