Mag. Dr. Alexander Linsbichler, MA
Alexander Linsbichler
Summer term 2025
040264 SE Philosophy and Economics (MA) - Essentialism, Nominalism, and Criticisms of Formal Methods in the Austrian School of Economics
Winter term 2024
040049 SE Philosophy and Economics (MA) - Social Sciences and the Philosophy of the Vienna Circle: Selected Readings








Linsbichler, A 2023, Jan Tinbergen and the Rise of Technocracy. in F Stadler (ed.), Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle. 100 Years After the ‘Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus’. Springer International Publishing AG , Cham, pp. 597-604.






Linsbichler, A 2021 'Philosophy of Austrian Economics - Extended Cut' Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University Working Paper Series, no. 2021-24. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3984295

Linsbichler, A 2021 'Viennese Late Enlightenment and the Early Socialist Calculation Debates: Rationalities and Their Limits' Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University Working Paper Series, Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University. <https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3904011>

Linsbichler, A 2021 'Sprachgeist and Realisticness: The Troubled Relationship between (Austrian) Economics and Mathematics Revisited' Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University Working Paper Series, Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University. <https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3897919>


Linsbichler, A 2021, Philosophy of Austrian Economics. in J Reiss & C Heilmann (eds), The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Economics. Routledge, pp. 169-185.

Linsbichler, A 2021, Rationalities and their Limits: Reconstructing Neurath's and Mises's Prerequisites in the Early Socialist Calculation Debates. in L Fiorito, S Scheall & CE Suprinyak (eds), Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology: Including A Symposium on Carl Menger at the Centenary of His Death. Emerald Publishing, Bingley, Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, vol. 39B, pp. 95-128. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0743-41542021000039B008

Mises's Socialism and Some Moral Cases for Capitalism

Alexander Linsbichler (Speaker)

2 Dec 2022

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Scientific Pluralism as a Branch of Millenial Popperianism?

Alexander Linsbichler (Speaker), Sophie Juliane Veigl (Speaker) & Benjamin Smart (Speaker)

2 Dec 2022

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Die frühen sozialistischen Kalkulationsdebatten: Was wir über die Österreichische Schule und für das 21. Jahrhundert lernen könnten

Alexander Linsbichler (Speaker)

30 Nov 2022

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Österreichische Schule: Köpfe und Ideen

Alexander Linsbichler (Speaker)

19 Nov 2022

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Philosophy of Austrian Economics

Alexander Linsbichler (Speaker)

3 Jul 2022

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Rationalities and Their Limits: Reconstructing Neurath's and Mises's Prerequisites in the Early Socialist Calculation Debates

Alexander Linsbichler (Speaker)

22 Jun 2022

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Scientific Utopianism in Viennese Late Enlightenment: Josef Popper-Lynkeus's In-Kind Social Program as Universal Basic Income

Alexander Linsbichler (Speaker) & Marco Paulo Vianna Franco (Speaker)

25 Apr 2022

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Scientific Utopianism in Viennese Late Enlightenment: the In-Kind Social Programme of Josef Popper-Lynkeus in the Intellectual History of Universal Basic Income

Alexander Linsbichler (Speaker) & Marco Paulo Vianna Franco (Speaker)

21 Apr 2022

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Carl Menger's criticism of formal methods in economics: neither principled nor strongly essentialist

Alexander Linsbichler (Speaker)

25 Nov 2021

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The Troubled Relationship between (Austrian) Economics and Mathematics

Alexander Linsbichler (Speaker)

16 Apr 2021

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Realisticness and Sprachgeist - The Troubled Relationship between (Austrian) Economics and Mathematics

Alexander Linsbichler (Speaker)

25 Jan 2020

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Rationalities and their Limits - From “Red Vienna” to Behavioral Economics

Alexander Linsbichler (Speaker)

1 Oct 2019

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The Emergence of Logical Pluralism: A Closer Look at the Philosophy of Hans Hahn

Alexander Linsbichler (Speaker)

19 Sept 2019

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Realisticness and Sprachgeist - The Troubled Relationship Between (Austrian) Economics and Mathematics

Alexander Linsbichler (Speaker)

9 Sept 2019

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In defense of a thought-stopper: Relativizing the fact/value dichotomy

Alexander Linsbichler (Speaker)

5 Aug 2019

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Sprachgeist and Realisticness: The Troubled Relation between (Austrian) Economics and Mathematics

Alexander Linsbichler (Speaker)

26 Apr 2019

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Wiener Spätaufklärung und die frühe Kalkulationsdebatte: Rationalitäten und ihre Grenzen

Alexander Linsbichler (Speaker)

18 Oct 2018

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The Fact/Value Dichotomy is indeed a Thought-Stopper. Rejoice and embrace it!

Alexander Linsbichler (Speaker)

5 Oct 2018

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Otto Neurath and Ludwig von Mises: Philosophy, Politics, and Economics in Viennese Late Enlightenment

Alexander Linsbichler (Speaker)

4 Oct 20186 Oct 2018

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Was man aus Einflüssen machen kann: Hans Hahns Adaptierung von Russells Logizimus und Wittgensteins Nominalismus

Alexander Linsbichler (Speaker)

6 Aug 2018

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Truth-tables and Tautologies in Early Logical Empiricism: Hans Hahn as a Pioneer of Logical Pluralism

Alexander Linsbichler (Speaker)

24 Jun 2018

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"Die Österreichische Schule der Nationalökonomie"

Alexander Linsbichler (Speaker)

19 Jun 2018

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Die Rationalitätskonzeptionen von Neurath und Mises

Alexander Linsbichler (Speaker)

12 Oct 2017

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The Austrian Economist and the Skeptic Utopist: To Whom Should Proto-Welfare-Economics beAddressed?

Alexander Linsbichler (Speaker)

23 Jun 2017

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Rationality and its Limits: Reconstructing Neurath's and Mises' Prerequisites in the Socialist Calculation Debates

Alexander Linsbichler (Speaker)

20 May 2017

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Thoughts on Education and Enlightenment in Viennese Late Enlightenment

Alexander Linsbichler (Speaker)

10 Mar 2017

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Prerequisites of the Early Socialist Calculation Debates: Reconstructing Otto Neurath's and Ludwig von Mises' Conceptions of Rationality

Alexander Linsbichler (Speaker)

8 Feb 2017

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Epistemology, Science and Society

Alexander Linsbichler (Speaker)

3 Feb 2017

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Justifying the Fundamental Axiom of Austrian Economics - What Rothbard could have done, but didn't do

Alexander Linsbichler (Speaker)

11 Jun 2016

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Der Pionier des logischen Pluralismus: Einige Anmerkungen zur Philosophie Hans Hahns

Alexander Linsbichler (Speaker)

29 Jan 2016

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Zwei Konzeptionen von Philosophie

Alexander Linsbichler (Speaker)

24 Aug 2015

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Mises' and Rothbard's Defenses of Praxeology - A Critical Analysis

Alexander Linsbichler (Speaker)

6 Aug 2015

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Otto Neurath und Ludwig von Mises über Bildung: Zwei Pole der Wiener Spätaufklärung im Vergleich

Alexander Linsbichler (Speaker)

28 May 2015

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Otto Neurath and Ludwig von Mises – The Socialist Calculation Debates and beyond

Alexander Linsbichler (Speaker)

15 May 2015

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Was Mises a Conventionalist? – A Critical Analysis of Mises‘ and Rothbard’s Defenses of Praxeology

Alexander Linsbichler (Speaker)

15 May 2015

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Das Fundamentalaxiom der Praxeologie: Apriorismus, Konventionalismus oder Essentialismus?

Alexander Linsbichler (Speaker)

19 Jan 2015

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Die Erkenntnistheorie von Ludwig von Mises als Lösungsversuch des Induktionsproblems

Alexander Linsbichler (Speaker)

28 Nov 2014

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Rudolf Carnap's 'Vom Chaos zur Wirklichkeit': Fallibilistische Konstitutionstheorie?

Alexander Linsbichler (Speaker)

28 May 2013

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Bewusstseinszustände und Leistungsrealisation

Alexander Linsbichler (Speaker)

17 Dec 2011

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Einführung in die Rekursive Modelltheorie, mit Schwerpunkt Rekursive Spektren von Theorien

Alexander Linsbichler (Speaker)

25 Oct 2010

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‚Logicism in the Twenty-First Century‘ (Hale, Wright) aus der Sicht von Quines ‚Philosophy of Logic‘

Alexander Linsbichler (Speaker)

4 May 2009

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