Peter Janich (4 January 1942 – 4 September 2016) was a professor of philosophy at the

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. He was born in

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. Janich studied physics, philosophy and psychology at the Universities of

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and

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. He attained a doctorate in philosophy in 1969 and during 1969/70 was a guest lecturer at the

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. From 1973 to 1980 he was a professor for

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of the accurate sciences at the University of

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. Since 1980 he has held the chair for systematic philosophy with an emphasis on theoretical philosophy at the

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. Janich is the joint founder and representative of the approach of methodical culturalism, a development of the methodical constructivism of the Erlangen School of constructivism. He developed the concept of protophysics with Paul Lorenzen and Rüdiger Inhetveen. Janich died of cancer at the age of 74 on 4 September 2016 in

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External links

Peter Janich, Homepage at the University of Marburg

Peter Janich: Kulturalismus
1942 births 2016 deaths 20th-century German philosophers Academic staff of the University of Marburg German male writers University of Hamburg alumni University of Erlangen–Nuremberg alumni 21st-century German philosophers {{Germany-philosopher-stub