The complex entanglements of various crises—the climate crisis, resource problems, the financial crisis and war in Ukraine—complicate life in a way and at a speed that has never been seen before in human history. Simultaneously, the time pressure to solve all these issues well and quickly is increasing—even though traditional certainties are becoming increasingly fraught.

Gert Scobel explores the philosophy of science through Descartes, Hume, and Wittgenstein to the present day and references the research of Visiting Scholar Olaf Engler.