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For many years he was a co-producer/editor of the journal of the "Gesellschaft für kritische Philosophie Nürnberg" ("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).

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).

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).

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

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"

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.