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Roberto Poli
Philosopher and sociologist at the University of Trento who holds the first UNESCO Chair in Anticipatory Systems and edited the Handbook of Anticipation.
Roberto Poli is in the Department of Sociology and Social Research at the University of Trento, where he teaches social foresight and the epistemology of the social sciences.1 He took a BA in sociology at Trento in 1980 and a PhD in philosophy at Utrecht in 2001.1 He holds the UNESCO Chair in Anticipatory Systems, the first of its kind, and heads a master's programme in social foresight.1,2 He is president of AFI, the Italian association of futurists, editor-in-chief of the journal Axiomathes, and editor of Springer's Anticipation Science series.1,2
His research covers anticipatory systems, which he describes as systems able to take decisions according to their possible future development, set out in his Introduction to Anticipation Studies (Springer, 2017).2 He has published six books and edited or co-edited more than twenty.2
He is the editor of the Handbook of Anticipation, and his chair at Trento is listed among the places where foresight and anticipation is taught.
- affiliation
- University of Trento
- role
- anticipation theorist
- homepage
- https://webapps.unitn.it/du/en/Persona/PER0003173/Curriculum
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Reference work in 77 entries on anticipation, the use of the future in decisions, drawing on biology, the social sciences, the humanities, engineering and computer science; Springer, 2019.
Tags: anticipation, futures studies, social foresight