Morphologie als wissenschaftliches ParadigmaZur Aktualität eines naturphilosophischen Begriffs

随着“形态学”概念在21世纪生命科学领域的蓬勃发展，对这一概念的定义对哲学来说至关重要。这个概念已经变成了一种范式，它超越了个体科学方法的框架，从而破坏了生命科学、自然科学和文化科学的分离。它因此获得了普遍存在的科学取向理想的功能。正如恩斯特·卡西尔（Ernst Cassirer）所指出的那样，一种适时的哲学与生命科学和文化科学的理论和实证研究有着密切的联系，因此这种理想已经成为文化哲学的主题。卡西尔对格式塔形态概念在科学中的范式地位的诊断标志着本研究项目的出发点。本研究的分析包括三个步骤：首先，必须提供当前形态学概念的理论设计及其作为范式的发展。其次，卡西尔的诊断将作为这一概念的历史平行来评估和回顾，同时也考虑到格式塔在20世纪20年代至40年代对自然科学和人文科学的作用，包括它对卡西尔文化哲学和结构主义起源的影响。最后，它将有可能开拓出与当代文化哲学的历史和系统关系。该研究网络将以德语和法语研究领域为目标，汇集德法两国文化哲学和人类学领域的杰出青年研究人员和知名专家。

As the concept of "morphology" gains momentum in the life sciences in the 21st century, defining this term becomes of vital importance for philosophy.The concept has turned into a paradigm, which transcends the framework of individual scientific methods thus undermining the separation of the life-, natural- and cultural-sciences. It has thereby attained the function of a ubiquitous ideal of scientific orientation. Since - as Ernst Cassirer has shown - a timely philosophy holds close ties to theory and empirical research of the life- and cultural-sciences, such an ideal has become the subject of the philosophy of culture. Cassirers diagnosis of the paradigmatic status of the morphological concept of gestalt in the sciences marks the point of departure of the present research project.The analysis aimed for in this research includes three steps: First, it will be necessary to provide the theoretical design of the current concept of morphology and its development as a paradigm. Secondly, Cassirer`s diagnosis will be evaluated and reviewed as a historical parallel to this concept, while also considering the function of gestalt for the natural sciences and humanities in the 1920's to 1940's, including its influences on Cassirer¿s philosophy of culture and the beginning of structuralism. Finally, it will become possible to carve out the historical and systematic relations to contemporary philosophy of culture.Aiming at the German and French speaking research areas, the research network will gather distinguished young researchers and well-established specialists from the fields of philosophy of culture and anthropology from Germany and France.