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Erinnerungen an die wissenschaftliche Zusammenarbeit mit Wolfgang Schad

Geschichte und Gegenwart des organismischen Denkens in der Biologie
Summary
Throughout the history of biology, there have always been two opposing basic views of life. The one view tried to attribute the processes of life to mechanistic, physical-… Read More

Die goetheanistische Wissenschaftshaltung im Kontext von neuerer Biologie und Pädagogik
The Goethean scientist’s approach is presented as a research attitude whose aim is to carefully bring together and interlink the external observation of nature on the one hand and the associated… Read More

Denkweisen in der Biologie
Philosophy of science has shown that research programs in the sense of paradigms are not only shaped by facts, but also by certain ways of thinking and forms of explanation, even by world views.… Read More

Die evolutionäre Bedeutung des Spiels
The evolutionary significance of play
Human and animal play is both a fascinating and puzzling phenomenon. Its origin and function cannot be conclusively explained within conventional… Read More

Entwurf einer organismischen Systembiologie
Sketch of an organismic systems biology
Biology has been dominated for a long time by two contrasting explanations and research approaches: reductionism and holism. This article shows that… Read More

Zur Autonomieentstehung in der Evolution - Eine Übersicht
The generation of autonomy in evolution - a survey
The hypothesis is advanced that major evolutionary innovations are characterized by an increase of organismal autonomy in the sense of an… Read More

Geschichte und Problem des Höherentwicklungsbegriffs
The history and problem of the idea of evolution
The usual picture of the phylogenetic process is that there were first single-celled bacteria-like organisms followed by multicellular,»… Read More
