Franz M. Wuketits
Franz Manfred Wuketits (5 January 1955 – 6 June 2018) was an Austrian biologist, university teacher and epistemologist. He wrote extensively on epistemology, the history and theory of biology, evolution theory, evolutionary ethics, evolutionary epistemology and sociobiology. Wuketits co-founded 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. Life. 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). Since 2002 he was on the board of the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research in Lower Austria. He was a member of the scientific advisory board of the Giordano Bruno Foundation which has as its mission "Support of Evolutionary Humanism". He also belongs to "Free Academy" in Berlin and to Vienna's Library Platform initiative. Other roles have included providing scientific input for the Kapfenberg (in Styria) Summer Academy till 2008 (which was the final year for the event). For many years he was a co-producer/editor of the journal of the (""literally  Nuremberg Society from Critical Philosophy"/ GKPN), Aufklärung & Kritik" which promotes free thought and humanist philosophy. He was on the editorial/advisory board of various other journals and publications ("Biological Theory", "Ludus Vitalis", "La Nuova Critica", "Universitas" etc.). From 2005 until 2008 he was also the editor of "Bioscop", the journal of the Austrian Biologist Association (ABA). Published works. This list only partially complete.