Research

Project in the Collaborative Research Center “A Novel Synthesis of Individualisation across Behaviour, Ecology and Evolution”

The TRR-SFB 212 is a paradigm example of Individual-Based Research (IBR), which studies individuals and their interactions with the environment. This project provides a philosophical framework for IBR in biology by analyzing its central concepts, epistemology and integrative practices. We will use the SFB as a philosophical case study to explore what IBR in biology is, how its central concepts can be understood, what kind of complexity it is concerned with, what its strengths and limitations are, which methodological challenges it encounters, and how the integration of findings from different biological fields is achieved in IBR.