Weizsäcker-Zentrum Universität Tübingen

The Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Center of the University of Tübingen is dedicated to foundational research, aiming to provide a platform to post-doctoral researchers for reflection on foundations.

The orientation of this foundational reflection is closely connected to Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker's heritage. When Weizsäcker worked on the foundations of physics and philosophy in the 20th century, the world was under the shadow of nuclear weapons and atomic energy. The responsibility of the scientist in a globalized world became a central issue for the first time in history. Weizsäcker, however, realized that merely engaging in daily politics would be too short-sighted. In fact, at the time, the changes we were seeing in the world were related to fundamental upheavals in physics, whose physical and philosophical foundations had to be worked out.

The Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Center is supported by the Udo Keller Stiftung Forum Humanum.