Understanding and overcoming the crisis of the knowledge

'The flood of information on the Internet challenges our ability to distinguish between truth and untruth,' says Paulina Sliwa, member on the Board of Directors of the new Cluster of Excellence Knowledge in Crisis / Wissen in der Krise. Pixabay - Cluster of Excellence Knowledge in Crisis / Wissen in der Krise: Under this title, an interdisciplinary team led by Tim Crane from the Central European University (CEU) addresses the threats to the knowledge claims due to rapidly advancing technological developments. They seek to find new pathways of knowledge in the 21st century. The philosophers Paulina Sliwa, Bernhard Schmid and Max Kölbel represent the University of Vienna in the coordination team of the research network, which is funded as part of the excellence initiative excellent=austria. Since the emergence of the Internet, we are faced with a flood of information and it is not easy to keep an overview of all this information. "We are faced with a crisis of knowledge. The technological progress threatens our knowledge claims and the flood of information on the Internet challenges our ability to distinguish between truth and untruth," says Paulina Sliwa, professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Education at the University of Vienna and member on the Board of Directors of the new Cluster of Excellence Knowledge in Crisis / Wissen in der Krise, which will be launched in the autumn of 2023.