Peter Janich

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Peter Janich (born January 4, 1942 in Munich ; † September 4, 2016 in Rauschenberg ) was a German philosopher and co-founder of methodical culturalism .

Life

Peter Janich studied physics , philosophy and psychology at the Universities of Erlangen and Hamburg. He received his PhD in philosophy in 1969 and was a visiting professor at the University of Texas at Austin in 1969/70 . From 1971 to 1973 he was Scientific Councilor and from 1973 to 1980 professor for the philosophy of science of the exact sciences at the University of Konstanz . From 1980 until his retirement in 2007 he held the chair for systematic philosophy with a focus on theoretical philosophy at the Philipps University of Marburg . In 2005 he was elected a member of the Academia Europaea . Since January 2016 Janich was Dr. phil. honorary at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

Peter Janich was married to Annemarie Janich until his death. Nina Janich is his daughter (in addition to another daughter and a son).

Work areas

Janich was a co-founder and representative of the methodical culturalism as a continuation of the methodical constructivism of the Erlanger school ( Erlanger constructivism ). In this context, he and Paul Lorenzen and Rüdiger Inhetveen made fundamental contributions to protophysics , especially the protophysics of the time.

Janich taught a pragmatic and operationalist philosophy of science in Marburg , which dealt particularly with the fundamentals of natural sciences : mathematics, computer science, biology, chemistry and psychology. Janich's students (and some of his assistants) were: Armin Grunwald , Mathias Gutmann , Gerd Hanekamp , Dirk Hartmann , Rainer Lange , Nikolaos Psarros , Wolfgang Schonefeld, Holm Tetens , Michael Weingarten , Walther Zitterbarth.

According to Janich, science arises from the stylization of life practices. The judging authority lies in the success of the action, ie in its success, its intended and actually achieved or occurred consequences.

Further areas of work: action theory , philosophy of language , epistemology , truth theory , philosophy of technology , history of science .

Fonts

  • The Protophysics of Time (= BI University Pocket Books Volume 517), Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim 1969 DNB 457091398 . (Dissertation University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Philosophical Faculty, August 8, 1969, 177 pages DNB 482470232 )
  • Purpose and method of physics from a philosophical point of view (= Konstanzer Universitätsreden , Volume 65), Druckerei und Verlagsanstalt Konstanz Universitatsverlag, Konstanz 1973, ISBN 3-87940-077-6 (Revised version of the public inaugural lecture, which the author presented on June 25, 1973 of the University of Konstanz).
  • Clarity, consistency and methodical order: normative versus descriptive philosophy of science in physics. In: Friedrich Kambartel , Jürgen Mittelstraß (Hrsg.): On the normative foundation of science. Athenaeum, Frankfurt am Main 1973, ISBN 3-7610-9252-0 , pp. 131–158.
  • with Friedrich Kambartel and Jürgen Mittelstraß : Theory of Science as a Critique of Science. aspekte, Frankfurt 1974, ISBN 3-921096-20-0 . (First published as a series of articles in: aspekte. Das deutsche studienmagazin. Issues from September 1972 - May 1973)
  • The protophysics of time. Constructive justification and history of time measurement. (Theory) Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 1980, ISBN 3-518-06416-9 .
    • Protophysics of Time. In: RS Cohen, MW Wartofsky (Ed.): Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Vol. 30, Dordrecht, Boston / Lancaster 1985.
  • Euclid's legacy. Is the space three-dimensional? Beck, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-406-33980-8 .
    • Euclid's Heritage. Is Space Three-Dimensional? In: RE Butts (Ed.): The University of Westers Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science. Vol. 52, Dordrecht, Boston / London 1992.
  • Limits of Science. Knowing as acting. Beck, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-406-34055-5 . (BsR 463)
    • I Limiti della Scienza Naturale. La conoscenza come azione. Introduction and translation by Marco Buzzoni. Milan 1996.
    • Japanese translation Tokyo 2004.
  • Knowing as acting. From constructive philosophy of science to epistemology. In: Wolfram Hogrebe (Ed.): Jena Philosophical Lectures and Studies. No. 3. Erlangen / Jena 1993, ISBN 3-7896-0516-6 .
  • Constructivism and knowledge of nature. On the way to culturalism. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 1996, ISBN 3-518-28844-X . ( stw 1244)
  • with Mathias Gutmann : On the scientific theory of genetics. Materials on the concept of genes. In: gray series. of the European Academy Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, No. 5 (1997).
  • What is truth A philosophical introduction. Beck, Munich 1996, 2000 (BsR 2052), ISBN 3-406-41052-9
  • What does it mean and how do we know that our space of experience is three-dimensional? Report of the meeting of the Scientific Society at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt, Volume XXXIV, 2 (1996), ISBN 3-515-06956-9 .
  • Small philosophy of science. Beck, Munich 1997 (BsR 1203), ISBN 3-406-42003-6 .
  • The measure of all things. Protophysics of space, time and matter. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 1997 ( stw 1334), ISBN 3-518-28934-9 .
  • The naturalization of information. In: Meeting reports of the Scientific Society at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University. Frankfurt, Vol. XXXVII, 2 (1999), ISBN 3-515-07558-5 .
  • with Michael Weingarten : Theory of Science of Biology. Methodical philosophy of science and the foundation of the sciences. Fink, Munich 1999 (UTB 2033), ISBN 3-7705-3323-2 , ISBN 3-8252-2033-8 .
  • What is knowledge A philosophical introduction. Beck, Munich 2000 (BsR 1376), ISBN 3-406-45916-1 .
  • Logical-pragmatic propaedeutics. A basic course in philosophical reflection. Velbrück, Weilerswist 2001, ISBN 3-934730-37-X . (New edition in the previous version)
  • The justification of geometry from poiesis. Report of the meeting of the Scientific Society at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt, Vol. XXXIX, 2 (2001), ISBN 3-515-07898-3 .
  • Human and nature. To revise a relationship with a view to the sciences. In: Meeting reports of the Scientific Society at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University. Frankfurt, Vol. XL, 2, (2002), ISBN 3-515-08189-5 .
  • Culture and method. Philosophy in a scientific world. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2006 ( stw 1773), ISBN 3-518-29373-7 .
  • What is information Critique of a legend. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 2006, ISBN 3-518-58470-7 .
  • including: Nanotechnology. Assessment and Perspectives. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2006.
  • with Helmut Schmidt and Carl Friedrich Gethmann : The responsibility of the politician. Fink, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7705-4592-6 .
  • No new image of man. On the language of brain research. ( edition unseld No. 21) Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 2009, ISBN 978-3-518-26021-0 .
  • Man and other animals. Darwin's ambiguous legacy. ( edition unseld No. 35) Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-518-26035-7 .
  • Emergence - god of gaps in the natural sciences and humanities , supplemented by a correspondence with Hans-Rainer Duncker. In: Meeting reports of the Scientific Society at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main Volume XLIX, 2, Frank Steiner, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-515-09871-7 .
  • The human being between nature and culture (series “Philosophy and Psychology in Dialogue”, edited by Christoph Hubig and Gerd Jüttemann). Together with Rolf Oerter . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-525-40180-4 .
  • Language and method. An introduction to philosophical reflection . Tübingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8252-4124-7
  • Craft and mouth. About creating knowledge . Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-406-67490-7

As editor:

  • Theory of Science and Science Studies. Beck, Munich 1981 (Edition Beck) , ISBN 3-406-08129-0 .
  • Methodical philosophy. Contributions to the problem of justification of the exact sciences in discussion with Hugo Dingler. BI-Wissenschaftsverlag, Mannheim 1984, ISBN 3-411-01697-3 .
  • Protophysics Today. Special issue of Philosophia naturalis . Hain, Meisenheim 1985.
  • Developments in methodological philosophy. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 1992 ( stw 979), ISBN 3-518-28579-3 .
  • with Nikolaos Psarros : Philosophical Perspectives in Chemistry. BI-Wissenschaftsverlag, Mannheim 1994, ISBN 3-411-17301-7 .
  • with Nikolaos Psarros : The language of chemistry Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1996, ISBN 3-8260-1180-5 .
  • with Christoph Rüchardt : Of course, technically, chemically. Relationship to nature using the example of chemistry. Springer, Berlin, New York 1996, ISBN 3-11-015013-1 .
  • with Dirk Hartmann : Methodical culturalism. Between naturalism and postmodernism. Suhrkamp Frankfurt 1996 ( stw 1272), ISBN 3-518-28872-5 .
  • with Nikolaos Psarros : The Autonomy of Chemistry. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1998, ISBN 3-8260-1486-3 .
  • Chemical limit values. An assessment of the position of chemists, lawyers, sociologists and philosophers. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim 1998, ISBN 3-527-29815-0 .
  • with Dirk Hartmann : The cultural turnaround. For orientation of the philosophical self-image. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 1998 ( stw 1391), ISBN 3-518-28991-8 .
  • Interactions. On the relationship between culturalism, phenomenology and method. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1999, ISBN 3-8260-1541-X .
  • including: biodiversity. Scientific basis and social relevance. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York 2002, ISBN 3-540-42658-2 .
  • Science and life. Philosophical justification problems in discussion with Hugo Dingler. transript, Bielefeld 2006, ISBN 3-89942-475-1 . ( E-copy )
  • Human Orientation Science. What do different scientific cultures do for an understanding of the human environment? Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-8260-3786-3 .
  • Naturalism and the concept of man. (German Yearbook Philosophy Vol. 1, published on behalf of the German Society for Philosophy). Meiner, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-7873-1879-7 .
  • Emergence - god of gaps in the natural sciences and humanities. Supplemented by a correspondence with Hans-Rainer-Duncker. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-515-09871-7 .
  • Man and his animals. Human-animal relationships as reflected in the sciences . Frankfurt 2014, ISBN 978-3-515-10922-2 .

Memberships

Janich was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Hugo Dingler Foundation and its chairman.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary in the Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 9, 2016, accessed on September 9, 2016.
  2. ↑ Directory of members: Peter Janich. Academia Europaea, accessed June 30, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Contains the constructive justification and history of time measurement, followed by further, extended editions and translations (English and French), the last German being Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-518-06416-9 .
  4. ↑ Chinese translation 2001
  5. ^ Korean translation Seoul 2004.
personal data
SURNAME Janich, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and science theorist
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH 4th September 2016
Place of death Rauschenberg