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Mag. Dr. Alexander Linsbichler, MA
Alexander Linsbichler
https://homepage.univie.ac.at/alexander.linsbichler/
Summer term 2026
040264 SE Philosophy and Economics (MA) - Apriorism in (Austrian) Economics Economics
040392 SE Types of Explanation in the History of Economic Thought (MA)
180022 VO Introduction to Philosophy of Science
Winter term 2025
040049 SE Philosophy and Economics (MA) - Can we actually appraise how-possibly explanations?
Summer term 2025
040264 SE Philosophy and Economics (MA) - Essentialism, Nominalism, and Criticisms of Formal Methods in the Austrian School of Economics
180021 VO Introduction to Philosophy of Science
Linsbichler, A 2025, Rational Reconstructions. in S Veigl & A Currie (eds), Methods in Philosophy of Science: A User's Guide. Cambridge, MA, pp. 125-143. <https://philpapers.org/rec/LINRRW>
Linsbichler, A, Veigl, SJ & Smart, B 2025, Scientific Pluralism as a Branch of Millenial Popperianism? in G Schiemer (ed.), The Legacy of the Vienna Circle. vol. 30, Vienna, Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook, pp. 147-165. <https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-80568-4>
Linsbichler, A & Vianna Franco, MP 2025, 'Universal Basic Income in Viennese Late Enlightenment: Rediscovering Josef Popper-Lynkeus and his in-kind social program', The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 363-390. <https://doi.org/10.1080/09672567.2024.2444921>
Linsbichler, A 2024, 'What Rothbard could have done but did not do: The merits of Austrian economics without extreme apriorism', Philosophical Problems in Science (ZFN), no. 76, pp. 43-84. https://doi.org/10.59203/zfn.76.678
Linsbichler, A 2024, Die Wiener Handelskammer als Lebensretter für die Österreichische Schule der Nationalökonomie. in H Hornacek, T Bohuslav, F Gregshammer, H Naumann & H Pribyl (eds), 175 Jahre Wirtschaftskammer Wien. Wirtschaftskammer Wien, Wien, pp. 40-47. <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/380928648_Die_Wiener_Handelskammer_als_Lebensretter_fur_die_Osterreichische_Schule_der_Nationalokonomie>
Linsbichler, A 2024, 'Review of Otto Neurath, Collected Works (Volumes 6-8)' Austrian History Yearbook, vol. 55, pp. 430-432. <https://doi.org/10.1017/S0067237824000237>
Linsbichler, A 2024, 'Review of Otto Neurath, Collected Works (Volumes 6-8) - ERRATUM' Austrian History Yearbook, vol. 55, pp. 642. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0067237824000432
da Cunha, IF & Linsbichler, A 2024, 'Ciência, Imaginação e Valores na Virada Energética Alemã: um exemplo da metodologia de Neurath para a tecnologia social', Kriterion, vol. 65, no. 156, pp. 673-700. <https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/kriterion/article/view/40941>
Linsbichler, A 2024, 'Otto-Neurath-Gesamtschau: Antiphilosophie, Utopismus, Naturalrechnung und noch viel mehr' Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 117-123. https://doi.org/10.59288/wug501.234
Linsbichler, A & da Cunha, IF 2023, 'Otto Neurath's Scientific Utopianism Revisited: A Refined Model for Utopias in Thought Experiments', Journal for General Philosophy of Science, vol. 54, no. 2, pp. 233-258. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10838-022-09630-5
Linsbichler, A 2023, 'An Ultra-Refined Grammar for Interactions: Thoughts on Robert Aumann's Philosophy of Game Theory', Revue Économique, vol. 74, no. 4. <https://www.cairn-int.info/journal-revue-economique-2023-4-page-635.htm>
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 2023, 'The Case Against Formal Methods in (Austrian) Economics: a Partial Defense of Formalization as Translation', Journal of Economic Methodology, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 107-121. https://doi.org/10.1080/1350178X.2023.2202669
Linsbichler, A 2022, 'Otto Neurath und Ludwig von Mises: Philosophy, Politics, and Economics in Viennese Late Enlightenment', Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 202-208. https://doi.org/10.23941/ejpe.v14i2.623
Linsbichler, A 2022, 'Als Schwurbler Logik und Empirie vertrieben', Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 109-117. <https://journals.akwien.at/wug/article/view/110>
Linsbichler, A 2022, 'Book Review: The Alternative Austrian Economics: A Brief History.' Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 501-510. https://doi.org/10.35297/qjae.010129
Linsbichler, A 2022, Viel mehr als nur Ökonomie: Köpfe und Ideen der Österreichischen Schule der Nationalökonomie. Böhlau Verlag, Wien.
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>

Mises's Socialism and Some Moral Cases for Capitalism

Linsbichler, A. (Speaker)

2 Dec 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Scientific Pluralism as a Branch of Millenial Popperianism?

Linsbichler, A. (Speaker), Veigl, S. J. (Speaker) & Smart, B. (Speaker)

2 Dec 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

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

Linsbichler, A. (Speaker)

30 Nov 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public

Österreichische Schule: Köpfe und Ideen

Linsbichler, A. (Speaker)

19 Nov 2022

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Philosophy of Austrian Economics

Linsbichler, A. (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

Linsbichler, A. (Speaker)

22 Jun 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

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

Linsbichler, A. (Speaker) & Vianna Franco, M. P. (Speaker)

25 Apr 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

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

Linsbichler, A. (Speaker) & Vianna Franco, M. P. (Speaker)

21 Apr 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

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

Linsbichler, A. (Speaker)

25 Nov 2021

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The Troubled Relationship between (Austrian) Economics and Mathematics

Linsbichler, A. (Speaker)

16 Apr 2021

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

Linsbichler, A. (Speaker)

25 Jan 2020

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

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

Linsbichler, A. (Speaker)

1 Oct 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

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

Linsbichler, A. (Speaker)

19 Sept 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

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

Linsbichler, A. (Speaker)

9 Sept 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

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

Linsbichler, A. (Speaker)

5 Aug 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

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

Linsbichler, A. (Speaker)

26 Apr 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Wiener Spätaufklärung und die frühe Kalkulationsdebatte: Rationalitäten und ihre Grenzen

Linsbichler, A. (Speaker)

18 Oct 2018

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

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

Linsbichler, A. (Speaker)

5 Oct 2018

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

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

Linsbichler, A. (Speaker)

4 Oct 2018 → 6 Oct 2018

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

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

Linsbichler, A. (Speaker)

6 Aug 2018

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

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

Linsbichler, A. (Speaker)

24 Jun 2018

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

"Die Österreichische Schule der Nationalökonomie"

Linsbichler, A. (Speaker)

19 Jun 2018

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Die Rationalitätskonzeptionen von Neurath und Mises

Linsbichler, A. (Speaker)

12 Oct 2017

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

Linsbichler, A. (Speaker)

23 Jun 2017

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

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

Linsbichler, A. (Speaker)

20 May 2017

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Thoughts on Education and Enlightenment in Viennese Late Enlightenment

Linsbichler, A. (Speaker)

10 Mar 2017

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

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

Linsbichler, A. (Speaker)

8 Feb 2017

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Epistemology, Science and Society

Linsbichler, A. (Speaker)

3 Feb 2017

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public

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

Linsbichler, A. (Speaker)

11 Jun 2016

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Otto Neurath and Ludwig von Mises - Late Enlightenment between physicalism, essentialism, and methodological individualism (poster presentation)

Linsbichler, A. (Speaker)

9 May 2016

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

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

Linsbichler, A. (Speaker)

29 Jan 2016

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Zwei Konzeptionen von Philosophie

Linsbichler, A. (Speaker)

24 Aug 2015

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

Linsbichler, A. (Speaker)

6 Aug 2015

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

Linsbichler, A. (Speaker)

28 May 2015

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

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

Linsbichler, A. (Speaker)

15 May 2015

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

Linsbichler, A. (Speaker)

15 May 2015

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Das Fundamentalaxiom der Praxeologie: Apriorismus, Konventionalismus oder Essentialismus?

Linsbichler, A. (Speaker)

19 Jan 2015

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Die Erkenntnistheorie von Ludwig von Mises als Lösungsversuch des Induktionsproblems

Linsbichler, A. (Speaker)

28 Nov 2014

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

Linsbichler, A. (Speaker)

28 May 2013

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Bewusstseinszustände und Leistungsrealisation

Linsbichler, A. (Speaker)

17 Dec 2011

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

Linsbichler, A. (Speaker)

25 Oct 2010

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

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

Linsbichler, A. (Speaker)

4 May 2009

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Department of Philosophy

Universitätsstraße 7 (NIG)
1010 Wien

alexander.linsbichler@univie.ac.at