Karl H. Müller (born 1953) is an Austrian social scientist, and director of the Steinbeis Transfer Center New Cybernetics in Vienna. He is particularly known for his 2005 work with
J. Rogers Hollingsworth on "Advancing Socio-Economics: An Institutionalist Perspective"
Life and work
Müller obtained his MA and PhD degree in philosophy and economics during his studies at the
University of Graz
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History
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University of Pittsburgh
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, the
University of Vienna
The University of Vienna (german: Universität Wien) is a public research university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world. With its long and rich hist ...
and the
University of Bologna
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from 1972 to 1983.
Müller began his academic career in 1984 at the
Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS) in Vienna, where from 1997 to 2001 he chaired the Departments of Political Science and Sociology, and from 2001 to 2014 the Wiener Institute for Social Science Documentation and Methodology (WISDOM). Since 2014 he is director of the Steinbeis Transfer Centre New Cybernetics in Vienna and is also President of the Heinz von Foerster Society.
Müller's research interests are "complex modeling in the social sciences, new science of cybernetics and renewals of radical constructivism, potential interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research... in the field of economy, science and society."
Uni-Doz. Dr. habil.Karl H. Müller, Wien
at ''systemisch-weiter-denken.de.'' Accessed 06.2015
Selected publications
* Hollingsworth, Joseph Rogers, Karl H. Müller, Ellen Jane Hollingsworth (2005) ''Advancing Socio-Economics: An Institutionalist Perspective.'' Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
* Albert Müller and Karl H. Müller (eds.) ''An Unfinished Revolution? Heinz von Foerster and the Biological Computer Laboratory'' BCL 1958–1976. Vienna, Austria: edition echoraum. 2007.
* Karl H. Müller (2008), The New Science of Cybernetics. The Evolution of Living Research Designs, vol. I: Methodology. Vienna, Austria: edition echoraum.
Articles, a selection:
* Mueller, K.
Towards a General Methodology for Second-Order Science
" ''Systemics, Cybernetics And Informatics'' 12.5 (2014): 33-42.
References
External links
Karl H. Müller
at forscenter.ch
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1953 births
Living people
Austrian social scientists
University of Graz alumni
University of Pittsburgh alumni
University of Vienna alumni
University of Bologna alumni