Morphologie als wissenschaftliches ParadigmaZur Aktualität eines naturphilosophischen Begriffs

随着21世纪“形态学”概念在生命科学中的兴起，对“形态学”概念的界定已成为哲学的一个重要问题，它已成为一种范式，超越了个别科学方法的框架，打破了生命科学、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，由于时间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，这样一种理想就成为了文化哲学的主题。卡西尔对形态学完形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。本研究旨在进行的分析包括三个步骤：首先，有必要提供当前形态学概念及其发展作为范式的理论设计。其次，卡西尔的诊断将被评估和审查作为一个历史的平行于这一概念，同时也考虑完形的功能，自然科学和人文科学在20世纪20年代至40年代，包括其对卡西尔的文化哲学和结构主义的开始的影响。该研究网络将以德、法两国为研究对象，汇聚来自德国和法国的文化哲学和人类学领域的杰出青年研究者和知名专家。

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.